Comment 8 for bug 474597

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sandeen (sandeen) wrote : Re: [PATCH 2.6.32.7] ext4: number of blocks for fiemap

<email address hidden> wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in attending to this patch. This is what I've
> added to the ext4 patch queue.
>
> - Ted
>
> commit 7f9aeb212e41ea20f61061d51ad11ee2449853f1
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <email address hidden>
> Date: Mon Feb 15 14:48:32 2010 -0500

Ted, it looks like perhaps you accidentally reassigned authorship for
this patch?

-Eric

> ext4: correctly calculate number of blocks for fiemap
>
> ext4_fiemap() rounds the length of the requested range down to
> blocksize, which is is not the true number of blocks that cover the
> requested region. This problem is especially impressive if the user
> requests only the first byte of a file: not a single extent will be
> reported.
>
> We fix this by calculating the last block of the region and then
> subtract to find the number of blocks in the extents.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Michlmayr <email address hidden>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <email address hidden>
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index bd80891..bc9860f 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -3768,7 +3768,6 @@ int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
> __u64 start, __u64 len)
> {
> ext4_lblk_t start_blk;
> - ext4_lblk_t len_blks;
> int error = 0;
>
> /* fallback to generic here if not in extents fmt */
> @@ -3782,8 +3781,11 @@ int ext4_fiemap(struct inode *inode, struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo,
> if (fieinfo->fi_flags & FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR) {
> error = ext4_xattr_fiemap(inode, fieinfo);
> } else {
> + ext4_lblk_t last_blk, len_blks;
> +
> start_blk = start >> inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> - len_blks = len >> inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> + last_blk = (start + len - 1) >> inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits;
> + len_blks = last_blk - start_blk + 1;
>
> /*
> * Walk the extent tree gathering extent information.
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