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authorChristoph Hellwig2019-02-18 18:38:48 +0100
committerDarrick J. Wong2019-02-21 16:55:07 +0100
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xfs: make COW fork unwritten extent conversions more robust
If we have racing buffered and direct I/O COW fork extents under writeback can have been moved to the data fork by the time we call xfs_reflink_convert_cow from xfs_submit_ioend. This would be mostly harmless as the block numbers don't change by this move, except for the fact that xfs_bmapi_write will crash or trigger asserts when not finding existing extents, even despite trying to paper over this with the XFS_BMAPI_CONVERT_ONLY flag. Instead of special casing non-transaction conversions in the already way too complicated xfs_bmapi_write just add a new helper for the much simpler non-transactional COW fork case, which simplify ignores not found extents. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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