ext4: correctly handle queries for metadata mappings

Currently, our handling of metadata is _ambiguous_ in some scenarios,
that is, we end up returning unknown if the range only covers the
mapping partially.

For example, in the following case:

$ xfs_io -c fsmap -d

  0: 254:16 [0..7]: static fs metadata 8
  1: 254:16 [8..15]: special 102:1 8
  2: 254:16 [16..5127]: special 102:2 5112
  3: 254:16 [5128..5255]: special 102:3 128
  4: 254:16 [5256..5383]: special 102:4 128
  5: 254:16 [5384..70919]: inodes 65536
  6: 254:16 [70920..70967]: unknown 48
  ...

$ xfs_io -c fsmap -d 24 33

  0: 254:16 [24..39]: unknown 16  <--- incomplete reporting

$ xfs_io -c fsmap -d 24 33  (With patch)

    0: 254:16 [16..5127]: special 102:2 5112

This is because earlier in ext4_getfsmap_meta_helper, we end up ignoring
any extent that starts before our queried range, but overlaps it. While
the man page [1] is a bit ambiguous on this, this fix makes the output
make more sense since we are anyways returning an "unknown" extent. This
is also consistent to how XFS does it:

$ xfs_io -c fsmap -d

  ...
  6: 254:16 [104..127]: free space 24
  7: 254:16 [128..191]: inodes 64
  ...

$ xfs_io -c fsmap -d 137 150

  0: 254:16 [128..191]: inodes 64   <-- full extent returned

 [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_getfsmap.2.html

Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <023f37e35ee280cd9baac0296cbadcbe10995cab.1757058211.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Ojaswin Mujoo 2025-09-05 13:44:46 +05:30 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 46e75c56df
commit 46c22a8bb4

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@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ static int ext4_getfsmap_dev_compare(const void *p1, const void *p2)
static bool ext4_getfsmap_rec_before_low_key(struct ext4_getfsmap_info *info,
struct ext4_fsmap *rec)
{
return rec->fmr_physical < info->gfi_low.fmr_physical;
return rec->fmr_physical + rec->fmr_length <=
info->gfi_low.fmr_physical;
}
/*
@ -200,15 +201,18 @@ static int ext4_getfsmap_meta_helper(struct super_block *sb,
ext4_group_first_block_no(sb, agno));
fs_end = fs_start + EXT4_C2B(sbi, len);
/* Return relevant extents from the meta_list */
/*
* Return relevant extents from the meta_list. We emit all extents that
* partially/fully overlap with the query range
*/
list_for_each_entry_safe(p, tmp, &info->gfi_meta_list, fmr_list) {
if (p->fmr_physical < info->gfi_next_fsblk) {
if (p->fmr_physical + p->fmr_length <= info->gfi_next_fsblk) {
list_del(&p->fmr_list);
kfree(p);
continue;
}
if (p->fmr_physical <= fs_start ||
p->fmr_physical + p->fmr_length <= fs_end) {
if (p->fmr_physical <= fs_end &&
p->fmr_physical + p->fmr_length > fs_start) {
/* Emit the retained free extent record if present */
if (info->gfi_lastfree.fmr_owner) {
error = ext4_getfsmap_helper(sb, info,