3.6.11.9-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Theodore Ts'o [ Upstream commit a34eb503742fd25155fd6cff6163daacead9fbc3 ] When we try to allocate an inode, and there is a race between two CPU's trying to grab the same inode, _and_ this inode is the last free inode in the block group, make sure the group number is bumped before we continue searching the rest of the block groups. Otherwise, we end up searching the current block group twice, and we end up skipping searching the last block group. So in the unlikely situation where almost all of the inodes are allocated, it's possible that we will return ENOSPC even though there might be free inodes in that last block group. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c index c690ff9..16481bd 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -706,11 +706,8 @@ repeat_in_this_group: ino = ext4_find_next_zero_bit((unsigned long *) inode_bitmap_bh->b_data, EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb), ino); - if (ino >= EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb)) { - if (++group == ngroups) - group = 0; - continue; - } + if (ino >= EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb)) + goto next_group; if (group == 0 && (ino+1) < EXT4_FIRST_INO(sb)) { ext4_error(sb, "reserved inode found cleared - " "inode=%lu", ino + 1); @@ -728,6 +725,9 @@ repeat_in_this_group: goto got; /* we grabbed the inode! */ if (ino < EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb)) goto repeat_in_this_group; +next_group: + if (++group == ngroups) + group = 0; } err = -ENOSPC; goto out; -- 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/