2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ (cherry picked from commit f41c0750538667b87a19c93952e5d42fcc069bd7) We should check for need init flag with the group's alloc_sem held, to make sure while we are loading the buddy cache and holding a reference to it, a file system resize can't add new blocks to same group. The patch also drops the need init flag check in ext4_mb_regular_allocator() because doing the check without holding alloc_sem is racy. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -1032,8 +1032,26 @@ ext4_mb_load_buddy(struct super_block *s * groups mapped by the page is blocked * till we are done with allocation */ +repeat_load_buddy: down_read(e4b->alloc_semp); + if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp))) { + /* we need to check for group need init flag + * with alloc_semp held so that we can be sure + * that new blocks didn't get added to the group + * when we are loading the buddy cache + */ + up_read(e4b->alloc_semp); + /* + * we need full data about the group + * to make a good selection + */ + ret = ext4_mb_init_group(sb, group); + if (ret) + return ret; + goto repeat_load_buddy; + } + /* * the buddy cache inode stores the block bitmap * and buddy information in consecutive blocks. @@ -2010,27 +2028,6 @@ repeat: if (grp->bb_free == 0) continue; - /* - * if the group is already init we check whether it is - * a good group and if not we don't load the buddy - */ - if (EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp)) { - /* - * we need full data about the group - * to make a good selection - */ - err = ext4_mb_init_group(sb, group); - if (err) - goto out; - } - - /* - * If the particular group doesn't satisfy our - * criteria we continue with the next group - */ - if (!ext4_mb_good_group(ac, group, cr)) - continue; - err = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, group, &e4b); if (err) goto out; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/