3.6.11.5 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lachlan McIlroy [ Upstream commit e6155736ad76b2070652745f9e54cdea3f0d8567 ] In the case where we are allocating for a non-extent file, we must limit the groups we allocate from to those below 2^32 blocks, and ext4_mb_regular_allocator() attempts to do this initially by putting a cap on ngroups for the subsequent search loop. However, the initial target group comes in from the allocation context (ac), and it may already be beyond the artificially limited ngroups. In this case, the limit if (group == ngroups) group = 0; at the top of the loop is never true, and the loop will run away. Catch this case inside the loop and reset the search to start at group 0. [sandeen@redhat.com: add commit msg & comments] Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 773d341..bd62716 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -1979,7 +1979,11 @@ repeat: group = ac->ac_g_ex.fe_group; for (i = 0; i < ngroups; group++, i++) { - if (group == ngroups) + /* + * Artificially restricted ngroups for non-extent + * files makes group > ngroups possible on first loop. + */ + if (group >= ngroups) group = 0; /* This now checks without needing the buddy page */ -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/