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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:57:55 +0100 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org, Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH STABLE 5.10 5.4 4.19 4.14] ext4: add check to prevent attempting to resize an fs with sparse_super2 On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:44:49PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > From: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> > > commit b1489186cc8391e0c1e342f9fbc3eedf6b944c61 upstream. > > The in-kernel ext4 resize code doesn't support filesystem with the > sparse_super2 feature. It fails with errors like this and doesn't > finish the resize: > > EXT4-fs (loop0): resizing filesystem from 16640 to 7864320 blocks > EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): verify_reserved_gdb:760: reserved GDT 2 missing grp 1 (32770) > EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_resize_fs:2111: error (-22) occurred during file system resize > EXT4-fs (loop0): resized filesystem to 2097152 > > To reproduce: > mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -I 256 -J size=32 -E resize=$((256*1024*1024)) -O sparse_super2 ext4.img 65M > truncate -s 30G ext4.img > mount ext4.img /mnt > python3 -c 'import fcntl, os, struct ; fd = os.open("/mnt", os.O_RDONLY | os.O_DIRECTORY) ; fcntl.ioctl(fd, 0x40086610, struct.pack("Q", 30 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 // 4096), False) ; os.close(fd)' > dmesg | tail > e2fsck ext4.img > > The userspace resize2fs tool has a check for this case: it checks if > the filesystem has sparse_super2 set and if the kernel provides > /sys/fs/ext4/features/sparse_super2. However, the former check > requires manually reading and parsing the filesystem superblock. > > Detect this case in ext4_resize_begin and error out early with a clear > error message. > > Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/74b8ae78405270211943cd7393e65586c5faeed1.1623093259.git.josh@joshtriplett.org > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> > --- > fs/ext4/resize.c | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) Now queued up, thanks. greg k-h
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