linux-kernel - Re: [ 110/180] ext4: dont let i_reserved_meta

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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2012 22:55:28 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 110/180] ext4: dont let i_reserved_meta_blocks go negative

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:53:47AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>
> 
> commit 97795d2a5b8d3c8dc4365d4bd3404191840453ba upstream.
> 
> If we hit a condition where we have allocated metadata blocks that
> were not appropriately reserved, we risk underflow of
> ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks.  In turn, this can throw
> sbi->s_dirtyclusters_counter significantly out of whack and undermine
> the nondelalloc fallback logic in ext4_nonda_switch().  Warn if this
> occurs and set i_allocated_meta_blocks to avoid this problem.
> 
> This condition is reproduced by xfstests 270 against ext2 with
> delalloc enabled:
> 
> Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526344] EXT4-fs (loop1): delayed block allocation failed for inode 14 at logical offset 64486 with max blocks 64 with error -28
> Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526346] EXT4-fs (loop1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
> 
> 270 ultimately fails with an inconsistent filesystem and requires an
> fsck to repair.  The cause of the error is an underflow in
> ext4_da_update_reserve_space() due to an unreserved meta block
> allocation.
[...]
> +	if (unlikely(ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks > ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks)) {
> +		ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_NOTICE, "%s: ino %lu, allocated %d "
> +			 "with only %d reserved metadata blocks\n", __func__,
> +			 inode->i_ino, ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks,
> +			 ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks);
> +		WARN_ON(1);
> +		ei->i_allocated_meta_blocks = ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks;
> +	}
[...]
 
This seems to be working around a bug elsewhere.  Has the underlying
bug been fixed in mainline yet?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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