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-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/extents.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index e991ae2b461..715264b4bae 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2807,6 +2807,8 @@ fix_extent_len:
* into three uninitialized extent(at most). After IO complete, the part
* being filled will be convert to initialized by the end_io callback function
* via ext4_convert_unwritten_extents().
+ *
+ * Returns the size of uninitialized extent to be written on success.
*/
static int ext4_split_unwritten_extents(handle_t *handle,
struct inode *inode,
@@ -2824,7 +2826,6 @@ static int ext4_split_unwritten_extents(handle_t *handle,
unsigned int allocated, ee_len, depth;
ext4_fsblk_t newblock;
int err = 0;
- int ret = 0;
ext_debug("ext4_split_unwritten_extents: inode %lu,"
"iblock %llu, max_blocks %u\n", inode->i_ino,
@@ -2842,12 +2843,12 @@ static int ext4_split_unwritten_extents(handle_t *handle,
ext4_ext_store_pblock(&orig_ex, ext_pblock(ex));
/*
- * if the entire unintialized extent length less than
- * the size of extent to write, there is no need to split
- * uninitialized extent
+ * If the uninitialized extent begins at the same logical
+ * block where the write begins, and the write completely
+ * covers the extent, then we don't need to split it.
*/
- if (allocated <= max_blocks)
- return ret;
+ if ((iblock == ee_block) && (allocated <= max_blocks))
+ return allocated;
err = ext4_ext_get_access(handle, inode, path + depth);
if (err)