The GFS2 fallocate code chooses a target size to for allocating chunks of space. Whenever it can't find any resource groups with enough space free, it halves its target. Since this target is in bytes, eventually it will no longer be a multiple of blksize. As long as there is more space available in the resource group than the target, this isn't a problem, since gfs2 will use the actual space available, which is always a multiple of blksize. However, when gfs couldn't fallocate a bigger chunk than the target, it was using the non-blksize aligned number. This caused a BUG in later code that required blksize aligned offsets. Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/6905d9e4dda6112f007e9090bca80507da158e63
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2011:1065 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1065.html
Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they did not provide support for the Global File System 2 (GFS2). This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1065.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1189.html.
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:1189 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1189.html
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 748674]