linux-ext4 - [FOR-STABLE 13/20] ext4: Do mballoc init before doing filesystem recovery

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Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:05:33 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	stable@...nel.org
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [FOR-STABLE 13/20] ext4: Do mballoc init before doing filesystem recovery

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

During filesystem recovery we may be doing a truncate
which expects some of the mballoc data structures to
be initialized. So do ext4_mb_init before recovery.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
(cherry picked from commit c2774d84fd6cab2bfa2a2fae0b1ca8d8ebde48a2)
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |   25 +++++++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index bf0d58c..e1255cc 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2449,6 +2449,21 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 			"available.\n");
 	}
 
+	if (test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "EXT4-fs: Ignoring delalloc option - "
+				"requested data journaling mode\n");
+		clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, DELALLOC);
+	} else if (test_opt(sb, DELALLOC))
+		printk(KERN_INFO "EXT4-fs: delayed allocation enabled\n");
+
+	ext4_ext_init(sb);
+	err = ext4_mb_init(sb, needs_recovery);
+	if (err) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: failed to initalize mballoc (%d)\n",
+		       err);
+		goto failed_mount4;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * akpm: core read_super() calls in here with the superblock locked.
 	 * That deadlocks, because orphan cleanup needs to lock the superblock
@@ -2468,16 +2483,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	       test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_ORDERED_DATA ? "ordered":
 	       "writeback");
 
-	if (test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT4_MOUNT_JOURNAL_DATA) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "EXT4-fs: Ignoring delalloc option - "
-				"requested data journaling mode\n");
-		clear_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, DELALLOC);
-	} else if (test_opt(sb, DELALLOC))
-		printk(KERN_INFO "EXT4-fs: delayed allocation enabled\n");
-
-	ext4_ext_init(sb);
-	ext4_mb_init(sb, needs_recovery);
-
 	lock_kernel();
 	return 0;
 
-- 
1.6.0.4.8.g36f27.dirty

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