The cifs filesystem doesn't quite emulate FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE correctly
(note that due to lack of protocol support, it can't actually implement it
directly). Whilst it will (partially) invalidate dirty folios in the
pagecache, it doesn't write them back first, and so the EOF marker on the
server may be lower than inode->i_size.
This presents a problem, however, as if the punched hole invalidates the
tail of the locally cached dirty data, writeback won't know it needs to
move the EOF over to account for the hole punch (which isn't supposed to
move the EOF). We could just write zeroes over the punched out region of
the pagecache and write that back - but this is supposed to be a
deallocatory operation.
Fix this by manually moving the EOF over on the server after the operation
if the hole punched would corrupt it.
Note that the FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA RPC and the setting of the EOF should
probably be compounded to stop a third party interfering (or, at least,
massively reduce the chance).
This was reproducible occasionally by using fsx with the following script:
The second "write" should extend the EOF to 0x40000, and the "punch_hole"
should operate inside of that - but that depends on whether the VM gets in
and writes back the data first. If it doesn't, the file ends up 0x3a71f in
size, not 0x40000.
Fixes: 31742c5a3317 ("enable fallocate punch hole ("fallocate -p") for SMB3") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>