linux-ext4 - [PATCH 14/25] e2fsck: only release clusters when shortening a directory during a rehash

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Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:50:27 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:	tytso@....edu, darrick.wong@...cle.com
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 14/25] e2fsck: only release clusters when shortening a
 directory during a rehash

When the rehash process is running on a bigalloc filesystem, it
compresses all the directory entries and hash structures into the
beginning of the directory file and then uses block_iterate3() to free
the blocks off the end of the file.  It seems to call
ext2fs_block_alloc_stats2() for every block in a cluster, which is
unfortunate because this function allocates and frees entire clusters
(and updates the summary counts accordingly).  In this case e2fsck
writes out incorrect summary counts.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
---
 e2fsck/rehash.c |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/e2fsck/rehash.c b/e2fsck/rehash.c
index 6ef3568..29da9a1 100644
--- a/e2fsck/rehash.c
+++ b/e2fsck/rehash.c
@@ -719,10 +719,18 @@ static int write_dir_block(ext2_filsys fs,
 		/* We don't need this block, so release it */
 		e2fsck_read_bitmaps(wd->ctx);
 		blk = *block_nr;
-		ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap2(wd->ctx->block_found_map, blk);
-		ext2fs_block_alloc_stats2(fs, blk, -1);
+		/*
+		 * In theory, we only release blocks from the end of the
+		 * directory file, so it's fine to clobber a whole cluster at
+		 * once.
+		 */
+		if (blk % EXT2FS_CLUSTER_RATIO(fs) == 0) {
+			ext2fs_unmark_block_bitmap2(wd->ctx->block_found_map,
+						    blk);
+			ext2fs_block_alloc_stats2(fs, blk, -1);
+			wd->cleared++;
+		}
 		*block_nr = 0;
-		wd->cleared++;
 		return BLOCK_CHANGED;
 	}

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