linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: stop return ENOSPC from ext4_issue

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Message-ID: <YRaNKc2PvM+Eyzmp@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:18:01 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     yangerkun <yangerkun@...wei.com>, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, yukuai3@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: stop return ENOSPC from ext4_issue_zeroout

On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 03:35:29PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 04-08-21 20:50:44, yangerkun wrote:
> > Our testcase(briefly described as fsstress on dm thin-provisioning which
> > ext4 see volume size with 100G but actual size 10G) trigger a hungtask
> > bug since ext4_writepages fall into a infinite loop:
> > 
> > Got ENOSPC with follow stack:
> > ...
> > ext4_ext_map_blocks
> >   ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized
> >     ext4_ext_zeroout
> >       ext4_issue_zeroout
> >         ...
> >         submit_bio_wait <-- bio to thinpool will return ENOSPC
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the patch. As a quick fix for the problem this is probably fine.
> But longer term we might need to implement a configurable behavior for this
> because just dropping data on the floor (which is what would happen here)
> need not be what sysadmin wants and blocking until space is provisioned may be
> actually a preferable behavior. Anyway for now feel free to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Hmm, I wonder if this would be a better fix.  (Not yet tested, may fry
your file system, etc....)   What do folks think?

						- Ted

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 92ad64b89d9b..501516cadc1b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3569,7 +3569,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
 				split_map.m_len - ee_block);
 			err = ext4_ext_zeroout(inode, &zero_ex1);
 			if (err)
-				goto out;
+				goto fallback;
 			split_map.m_len = allocated;
 		}
 		if (split_map.m_lblk - ee_block + split_map.m_len <
@@ -3583,7 +3583,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
 						      ext4_ext_pblock(ex));
 				err = ext4_ext_zeroout(inode, &zero_ex2);
 				if (err)
-					goto out;
+					goto fallback;
 			}
 
 			split_map.m_len += split_map.m_lblk - ee_block;
@@ -3592,6 +3592,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
 		}
 	}
 
+fallback:
 	err = ext4_split_extent(handle, inode, ppath, &split_map, split_flag,
 				flags);
 	if (err > 0)