linux-ext4 - [PATCH] Ext4: avoid multiple quota reservation when retry block reservation for delalloc

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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:52:30 -0700
From:	Mingming <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, tytso@....edu
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Ext4: avoid multiple quota reservation when retry block
 reservation for delalloc

Ext4: release reserved quota before block reservation for delalloc retry

ext4_da_reserve_space() can reserve quota blocks multiple times if
ext4_claim_free_blocks() fail and we retry the allocation. We should
release the quota reservation before restarting.

Bug found be Jan Kara.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>

---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.31-rc4/fs/ext4/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.31-rc4.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ linux-2.6.31-rc4/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1785,11 +1785,11 @@ repeat:
 
 	if (ext4_claim_free_blocks(sbi, total)) {
 		spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
+		vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, total);
 		if (ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)) {
 			yield();
 			goto repeat;
 		}
-		vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, total);
 		return -ENOSPC;
 	}
 	EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks += nrblocks;


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