linux-ext4 - patch ext4-do-mballoc-init-before-doing-filesystem-recovery.patch added to 2.6.27-stable tree

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Date:	Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:55:51 -0800
From:	<gregkh@...e.de>
To:	aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu
Cc:	<stable@...nel.org>, <stable-commits@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: patch ext4-do-mballoc-init-before-doing-filesystem-recovery.patch added to 2.6.27-stable tree


This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled

    Subject: ext4: Do mballoc init before doing filesystem recovery

to the 2.6.27-stable tree.  Its filename is

    ext4-do-mballoc-init-before-doing-filesystem-recovery.patch

A git repo of this tree can be found at 
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary


>From tytso@....edu  Wed Dec  3 10:42:48 2008
From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:05:33 -0500
Subject: ext4: Do mballoc init before doing filesystem recovery
To: stable@...nel.org
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <1226851540-8032-14-git-send-email-tytso@....edu>

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

(cherry picked from commit c2774d84fd6cab2bfa2a2fae0b1ca8d8ebde48a2)

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 fs/ext4/super.c |   25 +++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2449,6 +2449,21 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_
 			"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_
 	       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;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-2.6.27/ext4-elevate-write-count-for-migrate-ioctl.patch
queue-2.6.27/ext4-free-ext4_prealloc_space-using-kmem_cache_free.patch
queue-2.6.27/ext4-do-mballoc-init-before-doing-filesystem-recovery.patch
queue-2.6.27/ext4-convert-to-host-order-before-using-the-values.patch
queue-2.6.27/ext4-mark-the-buffer_heads-as-dirty-and-uptodate-after-prepare_write.patch
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