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The handling of journalled data in ext4_zero_range() is incomplete. We do not need to commit running transaction but we rather need to checkpoint pages with journalled data. If we don't, journal tail can be advanced beyond transaction containing the journalled data and if we then crash before committing the transaction doing the zeroing we will have inconsistent (too old) data in the file. Make sure file pages with journalled data are properly checkpointed before removing them from the page cache. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329154950.19720-8-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.