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ext4: don't track ranges in fast_commit if inode has inlined data

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When fast-commit needs to track ranges, it has to handle inodes that have
inlined data in a different way because ext4_fc_write_inode_data(), in the
actual commit path, will attempt to map the required blocks for the range.
However, inodes that have inlined data will have it's data stored in
inode->i_block and, eventually, in the extended attribute space.

Unfortunately, because fast commit doesn't currently support extended
attributes, the solution is to mark this commit as ineligible.

Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039883
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques (SUSE) <luis.henriques@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Fixes: 9725958bb7 ("ext4: fast commit may miss tracking unwritten range during ftruncate")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240618144312.17786-1-luis.henriques@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Luis Henriques (SUSE) 2024-06-18 15:43:12 +01:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 63469662cc
commit 7882b0187b
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@ -649,6 +649,12 @@ void ext4_fc_track_range(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t star
if (ext4_test_mount_flag(inode->i_sb, EXT4_MF_FC_INELIGIBLE))
return;
if (ext4_has_inline_data(inode)) {
ext4_fc_mark_ineligible(inode->i_sb, EXT4_FC_REASON_XATTR,
handle);
return;
}
args.start = start;
args.end = end;