tmpfs: don't undo fallocate past its last page

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When fallocate is interrupted it will undo a range that extends one byte
past its range of allocated pages.  This can corrupt an in-use page by
zeroing out its first byte.  Instead, undo using the inclusive byte
range.

Fixes: 1635f6a741 ("tmpfs: undo fallocation on failure")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462713387-16724-1-git-send-email-anthony.romano@coreos.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Romano <anthony.romano@coreos.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.co>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Anthony Romano 2016-06-24 14:48:43 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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