From 240e2df5c740d73fc08cac9989872212deb2d20e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Halcrow Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:09:44 -0700 Subject: eCryptfs: fix write zeros behavior This patch fixes the processes involved in wiping regions of the data during truncate and write events, fixing a kernel hang in 2.6.22-rc4 while assuring that zero values are written out to the appropriate locations during events in which the i_size will change. The range passed to ecryptfs_truncate() from ecryptfs_prepare_write() includes the page that is the object of ecryptfs_prepare_write(). This leads to a kernel hang as read_cache_page() is executed on the same page in the ecryptfs_truncate() execution path. This patch remedies this by limiting the range passed to ecryptfs_truncate() so as to exclude the page that is the object of ecryptfs_prepare_write(); it also adds code to ecryptfs_prepare_write() to zero out the region of its own page when writing past the i_size position. This patch also modifies ecryptfs_truncate() so that when a file is truncated to a smaller size, eCryptfs will zero out the contents of the new last page from the new size through to the end of the last page. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h') diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h index 403e3bad1455..1b9dd9a96f19 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h @@ -580,5 +580,7 @@ void ecryptfs_write_header_metadata(char *virt, struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat, size_t *written); +int ecryptfs_write_zeros(struct file *file, pgoff_t index, int start, + int num_zeros); #endif /* #ifndef ECRYPTFS_KERNEL_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3