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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2012-01-05 12:55:03 +0000
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2012-01-05 12:55:03 +0000
commit4c5f830c4c9d4f19c1eef356c0cd322b46d695c9 (patch)
treea14ad6c652736bb28859a7aec392a01b236ae58d /fs/ext4/page-io.c
parentcc511b8d84d88ab788cddbfe8d21485b1c387493 (diff)
parent2e3d256de9d3db5a7ca19b61305627a516b54b45 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-russell' of git://hansjkoch.de/git/linux-tcc into HEAD
Conflicts: arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/common.h
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/page-io.c')
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 7ce1d0b19c94..7e106c810c62 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -385,6 +385,18 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
block_end = block_start + blocksize;
if (block_start >= len) {
+ /*
+ * Comments copied from block_write_full_page_endio:
+ *
+ * The page straddles i_size. It must be zeroed out on
+ * each and every writepage invocation because it may
+ * be mmapped. "A file is mapped in multiples of the
+ * page size. For a file that is not a multiple of
+ * the page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when
+ * mapped, and writes to that region are not written
+ * out to the file."
+ */
+ zero_user_segment(page, block_start, block_end);
clear_buffer_dirty(bh);
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
continue;