2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Aneesh Kumar K.V (cherry picked from commit 29eaf024980e07cc01f31ae4ea5d68c917f4b7da) We need to init the complete page during buddy cache init by setting the contents to '1'. Otherwise we can see the following errors after doing an online resize of the filesystem: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used: Allocating block 1040385 in system zone of 127 group Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -848,6 +848,8 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct pag err = 0; first_block = page->index * blocks_per_page; + /* init the page */ + memset(page_address(page), 0xff, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); for (i = 0; i < blocks_per_page; i++) { int group; struct ext4_group_info *grinfo; @@ -874,7 +876,6 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct pag BUG_ON(incore == NULL); mb_debug("put buddy for group %u in page %lu/%x\n", group, page->index, i * blocksize); - memset(data, 0xff, blocksize); grinfo = ext4_get_group_info(sb, group); grinfo->bb_fragments = 0; memset(grinfo->bb_counters, 0, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html