Re: [PATCH 0/2] ext4: ensure WRITE_ZEROES is power-failure-safe.
"Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:01:01 -0400
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-ext4,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <178602814510.965683.9213425035068203757.b4-ty@b4> |
On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:59:16 +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
> This series is extracted from the last patch of my previous series
> "ext4: fix unaligned edge handling in FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES"[1]. It
> fixes the issue where FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES could leave written extents
> beyond EOF after a power failure (reported by Jan). This series fixes
> the on-disk orphan list corruption and filesystem corruption that could
> occur during partial extent conversion in
> ext4_convert_unwritten_extents() as reported by sashiko in the previous
> version.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/2] ext4: export converted block count from ext4_convert_unwritten_extents()
commit: 5b3dcb924a38ecd2c0d828ff30c357357eda1da8
[2/2] ext4: protect WRITE_ZEROES written extents with orphan list
commit: f7237a775c8f3e99e0e77b7c10fb626815fb2877
Best regards,
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Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>