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GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read

If a page was partially zeroed as the result of a truncate, then it was
not being correctly marked dirty. This resulted in the deleted data
reappearing if the file was read back via direct I/O.

Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Steven Whitehouse 16 years ago
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      fs/gfs2/bmap.c

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fs/gfs2/bmap.c

@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ static int gfs2_block_truncate_page(struct address_space *mapping)
 		gfs2_trans_add_bh(ip->i_gl, bh, 0);
 
 	zero_user(page, offset, length);
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+	mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
 unlock:
 	unlock_page(page);
 	page_cache_release(page);