[PATCH 4/5] afs: Zero bytes after 'oldsize' if we're expanding the file

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 01:49:27PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy at infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > POSIX requires that "If the file size is increased, the extended area
> > shall appear as if it were zero-filled".  It is possible to use mmap to
> > write past EOF and that data will become visible instead of zeroes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy at infradead.org>
> 
> That seems to work.  Do you want me to pass it on to Linus?  If not:
> 
> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

I'll send a patch series with all of this; it doesn't seem terribly
urgent.  Do you think there's a similar problem for AFS that Brian
noted with the generic patch?