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ext4: fix an off-by-one issue during moving extents

During the movement of a written extent, mext_page_mkuptodate() is
called to read data in the range [from, to) into the page cache and to
update the corresponding buffers. Therefore, we should not wait on any
buffer whose start offset is >= 'to'. Otherwise, it will return -EIO and
fail the extents movement.

$ for i in `seq 3 -1 0`; \
do xfs_io -fs -c "pwrite -b 1024 $((i * 1024)) 1024" /mnt/foo; \
done
$ umount /mnt && mount /dev/pmem1s /mnt # drop cache
$ e4defrag /mnt/foo
e4defrag 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
ext4 defragmentation for /mnt/foo
[1/1]/mnt/foo: 0% [ NG ]
Success: [0/1]

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: a40759fb16ae ("ext4: remove array of buffer_heads from mext_page_mkuptodate()")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-ID: <20250912105841.1886799-1-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

authored by

Zhang Yi and committed by
Theodore Ts'o
12e803c8 9d80eaa1

+1 -1
+1 -1
fs/ext4/move_extent.c
··· 225 225 do { 226 226 if (bh_offset(bh) + blocksize <= from) 227 227 continue; 228 - if (bh_offset(bh) > to) 228 + if (bh_offset(bh) >= to) 229 229 break; 230 230 wait_on_buffer(bh); 231 231 if (buffer_uptodate(bh))