linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.4 06/24] ext4: protect group inode free counting with group lock

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Date:	Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:46:53 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>,
	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.4 06/24] ext4: protect group inode free counting with group lock

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>

commit 6f2e9f0e7d795214b9cf5a47724a273b705fd113 upstream.

Now when we set the group inode free count, we don't have a proper
group lock so that multiple threads may decrease the inode free
count at the same time. And e2fsck will complain something like:

Free inodes count wrong for group #1 (1, counted=0).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong for group #2 (3, counted=0).
Fix? no

Directories count wrong for group #2 (780, counted=779).
Fix? no

Free inodes count wrong for group #3 (2272, counted=2273).
Fix? no

So this patch try to protect it with the ext4_lock_group.

btw, it is found by xfstests test case 269 and the volume is
mkfsed with the parameter
"-O ^resize_inode,^uninit_bg,extent,meta_bg,flex_bg,ext_attr"
and I have run it 100 times and the error in e2fsck doesn't
show up again.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/ialloc.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -778,6 +778,8 @@ got:
 			ext4_itable_unused_set(sb, gdp,
 					(EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) - ino));
 		up_read(&grp->alloc_sem);
+	} else {
+		ext4_lock_group(sb, group);
 	}
 	ext4_free_inodes_set(sb, gdp, ext4_free_inodes_count(sb, gdp) - 1);
 	if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
@@ -790,8 +792,8 @@ got:
 	}
 	if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM)) {
 		gdp->bg_checksum = ext4_group_desc_csum(sbi, group, gdp);
-		ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);
 	}
+	ext4_unlock_group(sb, group);

 	BUFFER_TRACE(group_desc_bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
 	err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, NULL, group_desc_bh);

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