Re: [PATCH] cleanup block based fiemap

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Josef Bacik wrote:
> 
> I'm resending this patch again since it doesn't seem to have made it in yet.
> The generic block fiemap stuff doesn't use the right typing and has a problem
> with not setting the last extent flag properly.  Also there is an issue with
> GFS2 where it doesn't like non-block aligned requests, so this fixes all these
> issues.  Thanks,

I'd really like the patch to clean up the crazy stuff too.

As-is, there's at least two remaining issues I see from just reading the 
patch:

> +	if (len >= i_size_read(inode)) {
> +		whole_file = true;
> +		len = i_size_read(inode);
> +	}
...
>  			if (!past_eof &&
>  			    blk_to_logical(inode, start_blk) >=
> -			    blk_to_logical(inode, 0)+i_size_read(inode))
> +			    blk_to_logical(inode, 0) + i_size_read(inode))
>  				past_eof = 1;

Issue #1: it does that i_size_read() several times. What happens if the 
file grows? Maybe we hold the i_mutex already, although I don't see it. 
Regardless, it seems bogus to read the size several times.

Issue #2: "blk_to_logical(inode, 0)"? WTF? Since when has shifting zero 
ever resulted in anything interesting or relevant? There's at least two of 
those things.

		Linus