+/*
+ * The idea of this helper function is following:
+ * if prepare_write has allocated some blocks, but not all of them, the
+ * transaction must include the content of the newly allocated blocks.
+ * This content is expected to be set to zeroes by block_prepare_write().
+ * 2006/10/14 SAW
+ */
+static int ext3_prepare_failure(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+ unsigned from, unsigned to)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping;
+ struct buffer_head *bh, *head, *next;
+ unsigned block_start, block_end;
+ unsigned blocksize;
+ int ret;
+ handle_t *handle = ext3_journal_current_handle();
+
+ mapping = page->mapping;
+ if (ext3_should_writeback_data(mapping->host)) {
+ /* optimization: no constraints about data */
+skip:
+ return ext3_journal_stop(handle);
+ }
+
+ head = page_buffers(page);
+ blocksize = head->b_size;
+ for ( bh = head, block_start = 0;
+ bh != head || !block_start;
+ block_start = block_end, bh = next)
+ {
+ next = bh->b_this_page;
+ block_end = block_start + blocksize;
+ if (block_end <= from)
+ continue;
+ if (block_start >= to) {
+ block_start = to;
+ break;
+ }
+ if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
+ /* prepare_write failed on this bh */
+ break;
+ if (ext3_should_journal_data(mapping->host)) {
+ ret = do_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh);
+ if (ret) {
+ ext3_journal_stop(handle);
+ return ret;
+ }
+ }
+ /*
+ * block_start here becomes the first block where the current iteration
+ * of prepare_write failed.
+ */
+ }
+ if (block_start <= from)
+ goto skip;
+
+ /* commit allocated and zeroed buffers */
+ return mapping->a_ops->commit_write(file, page, from, block_start);
+}
+