- 04 Jul, 2015 1 commit
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Lukas Czerner authored
On delalloc enabled file system on invalidatepage operation in ext4_da_page_release_reservation() we want to clear the delayed buffer and remove the extent covering the delayed buffer from the extent status tree. However currently there is a bug where on the systems with page size > block size we will always remove extents from the start of the page regardless where the actual delayed buffers are positioned in the page. This leads to the errors like this: EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_da_release_space:1225: ext4_da_release_space: ino 13, to_free 1 with only 0 reserved data blocks This however can cause data loss on writeback time if the file system is in ENOSPC condition because we're releasing reservation for someones else delayed buffer. Fix this by only removing extents that corresponds to the part of the page we want to invalidate. This problem is reproducible by the following fio receipt (however I was only able to reproduce it with fio-2.1 or older. [global] bs=8k iodepth=1024 iodepth_batch=60 randrepeat=1 size=1m directory=/mnt/test numjobs=20 [job1] ioengine=sync bs=1k direct=1 rw=randread filename=file1:file2 [job2] ioengine=libaio rw=randwrite direct=1 filename=file1:file2 [job3] bs=1k ioengine=posixaio rw=randwrite direct=1 filename=file1:file2 [job5] bs=1k ioengine=sync rw=randread filename=file1:file2 [job7] ioengine=libaio rw=randwrite filename=file1:file2 [job8] ioengine=posixaio rw=randwrite filename=file1:file2 [job10] ioengine=mmap rw=randwrite bs=1k filename=file1:file2 [job11] ioengine=mmap rw=randwrite direct=1 filename=file1:file2 Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 02 Jul, 2015 3 commits
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Nikolay Borisov authored
Switch ext4 to using sb_getblk_gfp with GFP_NOFS added to fix possible deadlocks in the page writeback path. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Nikolay Borisov authored
sb_getblk() is used during ext4 (and possibly other FSes) writeback paths. Sometimes such path require allocating memory and guaranteeing that such allocation won't block. Currently, however, there is no way to provide user flags for sb_getblk which could lead to deadlocks. This patch implements a sb_getblk_gfp with the only difference it can accept user-provided GFP flags. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Commit 8f4d8558: "ext4: fix lazytime optimization" was not a complete fix. In the case where the inode number is a multiple of 16, and we could still end up updating an inode with dirty timestamps written to the wrong inode on disk. Oops. This can be easily reproduced by using generic/005 with a file system with metadata_csum and lazytime enabled. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 23 Jun, 2015 1 commit
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Newer versions of mount parse the lazytime feature and pass it to the mount system call via the flags field in the mount system call, removing the lazytime string from the mount options list. So we need to check for the presence of MS_LAZYTIME and set it in sb->s_flags in order for this flag to be set on a remount. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 22 Jun, 2015 4 commits
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Josef Bacik authored
At LSF we decided that if we truncate up from isize we shouldn't trim fallocated blocks that were fallocated with KEEP_SIZE and are past the new i_size. This patch fixes ext4 to do this. [ Completely reworked patch so that i_disksize would actually get set when truncating up. Also reworked the code for handling truncate so that it's easier to handle. -- tytso ] Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
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Eric Whitney authored
Make the error reporting behavior resulting from the unsupported use of online defrag on files with data journaling enabled consistent with that implemented for bigalloc file systems. Difference found with ext4/308. Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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Eric Whitney authored
Remove outdated comments and dead code from ext4_da_reserve_space. Clean up its trace point, and relocate it to make it more useful. While we're at it, fix a nearby conditional used to determine if we have a non-bigalloc file system. It doesn't match usage elsewhere in the code, and misleadingly suggests that an s_cluster_ratio value of 0 would be legal. Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Darrick J. Wong authored
ext4 isn't willing to map clusters to a non-extent file. Don't signal this with an out of space error, since the FS will retry the allocation (which didn't fail) forever. Instead, return EUCLEAN so that the operation will fail immediately all the way back to userspace. (The fix is either to run e2fsck -E bmap2extent, or to chattr +e the file.) Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 21 Jun, 2015 3 commits
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Theodore Ts'o authored
In order to prevent quota block tracking to be inaccurate when ext4_quota_write() fails with ENOSPC, we make two changes. The quota file can now use the reserved block (since the quota file is arguably file system metadata), and ext4_quota_write() now uses ext4_should_retry_alloc() to retry the block allocation after a commit has completed and released some blocks for allocation. This fixes failures of xfstests generic/270: Quota error (device vdc): write_blk: dquota write failed Quota error (device vdc): qtree_write_dquot: Error -28 occurred while creating quota Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Normally all of the buffers will have been forced out to disk before we call invalidate_bdev(), but there will be some cases, where a file system operation was aborted due to an ext4_error(), where there may still be some dirty buffers in the buffer cache for the device. So try to force them out to memory before calling invalidate_bdev(). This fixes a warning triggered by generic/081: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3473 at /usr/projects/linux/ext4/fs/block_dev.c:56 __blkdev_put+0xb5/0x16f() Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Jan Kara authored
It is often the case that we mark buffer as having dirty metadata when the buffer is already in that state (frequent for bitmaps, inode table blocks, superblock). Thus it is unnecessary to contend on grabbing journal head reference and bh_state lock. Avoid that by checking whether any modification to the buffer is needed before grabbing any locks or references. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 15 Jun, 2015 7 commits
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Michal Hocko authored
insert_revoke_hash does an open coded endless allocation loop if journal_oom_retry is true. It doesn't implement any allocation fallback strategy between the retries, though. The memory allocator doesn't know about the never fail requirement so it cannot potentially help to move on with the allocation (e.g. use memory reserves). Get rid of the retry loop and use __GFP_NOFAIL instead. We will lose the debugging message but I am not sure it is anyhow helpful. Do the same for journal_alloc_journal_head which is doing a similar thing. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Andreas Dilger authored
Several ext4_warning() messages in the directory handling code do not report the inode number of the (potentially corrupt) directory where a problem is seen, and others report this in an ad-hoc manner. Add an ext4_warning_inode() helper to print the inode number and command name consistent with ext4_error_inode(). Consolidate the place in ext4.h that these macros are defined. Clean up some other directory error and warning messages to print the calling function name. Minor code style fixes in nearby lines. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Joseph Qi authored
If updating journal superblock fails after journal data has been flushed, the error is omitted and this will mislead the caller as a normal case. In ocfs2, the checkpoint will be treated successfully and the other node can get the lock to update. Since the sb_start is still pointing to the old log block, it will rewrite the journal data during journal recovery by the other node. Thus the new updates will be overwritten and ocfs2 corrupts. So in above case we have to return the error, and ocfs2_commit_cache will take care of the error and prevent the other node to do update first. And only after recovering journal it can do the new updates. The issue discussion mail can be found at: https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2015-June/010856.html http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/48841 [ Fixed bug in patch which allowed a non-negative error return from jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() to leak out of jbd2_fjournal_flush(); this was causing xfstests ext4/306 to fail. -- Ted ] Reported-by: Yiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Tested-by: Yiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@huawei.com> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
Making a function call with 20 arguments is rather expensive in both stack and .text. In this case, doing the formatting manually doesn't make it any less readable, so we might as well save 155 bytes of .text and 112 bytes of stack. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
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Lukas Czerner authored
Currently existing dio workers can jump in and potentially increase extent tree depth while we're allocating blocks in ext4_alloc_file_blocks(). This may cause us to underestimate the number of credits needed for the transaction because the extent tree depth can change after our estimation. Fix this by waiting for all the existing dio workers in the same way as we do it in ext4_punch_hole. We've seen errors caused by this in xfstest generic/299, however it's really hard to reproduce. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Lukas Czerner authored
Currently in ext4_alloc_file_blocks() the number of credits is calculated only once before we enter the allocation loop. However within the allocation loop the extent tree depth can change, hence the number of credits needed can increase potentially exceeding the number of credits reserved in the handle which can cause journal failures. Fix this by recalculating number of credits when the inode depth changes. Note that even though ext4_alloc_file_blocks() is only currently used by extent base inodes we will avoid recalculating number of credits unnecessarily in the case of indirect based inodes. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Dmitry Monakhov authored
jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() can be invoked by jbd2__journal_start() So allocations should be done with GFP_NOFS [Full stack trace snipped from 3.10-rh7] [<ffffffff815c4bd4>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8105dba1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80 [<ffffffff8105dcca>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff815c2142>] slab_pre_alloc_hook.isra.31.part.32+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff8119c045>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x55/0x210 [<ffffffff811477f5>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff811477f5>] mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff81147939>] mempool_alloc+0x69/0x170 [<ffffffff815cb69e>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xe/0x20 [<ffffffff8109160d>] ? finish_task_switch+0x5d/0x150 [<ffffffff811f1a8e>] bio_alloc_bioset+0x1be/0x2e0 [<ffffffff8127ee49>] blkdev_issue_flush+0x99/0x120 [<ffffffffa019a733>] jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail+0x93/0xa0 [jbd2] -->GFP_KERNEL [<ffffffffa019aca1>] jbd2_log_do_checkpoint+0x221/0x4a0 [jbd2] [<ffffffffa019afc7>] __jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0xa7/0x1e0 [jbd2] [<ffffffffa01952d8>] start_this_handle+0x2d8/0x550 [jbd2] [<ffffffff811b02a9>] ? __memcg_kmem_put_cache+0x29/0x30 [<ffffffff8119c120>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x130/0x210 [<ffffffffa019573a>] jbd2__journal_start+0xba/0x190 [jbd2] [<ffffffff811532ce>] ? lru_cache_add+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffffa01c9549>] ? ext4_da_write_begin+0xf9/0x330 [ext4] [<ffffffffa01f2c77>] __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x77/0x160 [ext4] [<ffffffffa01c9549>] ext4_da_write_begin+0xf9/0x330 [ext4] [<ffffffff811446ec>] generic_file_buffered_write_iter+0x10c/0x270 [<ffffffff81146918>] __generic_file_write_iter+0x178/0x390 [<ffffffff81146c6b>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x8b/0xb0 [<ffffffff81146ced>] generic_file_aio_write+0x5d/0xc0 [<ffffffffa01bf289>] ext4_file_write+0xa9/0x450 [ext4] [<ffffffff811c31d9>] ? pipe_read+0x379/0x4f0 [<ffffffff811b93f0>] do_sync_write+0x90/0xe0 [<ffffffff811b9b6d>] vfs_write+0xbd/0x1e0 [<ffffffff811ba5b8>] SyS_write+0x58/0xb0 [<ffffffff815d4799>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 13 Jun, 2015 4 commits
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Fabian Frederick authored
Use kernel.h macro definition. Thanks to Julia Lawall for Coccinelle scripting support. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Fabian Frederick authored
Use kernel.h macro definition. Thanks to Julia Lawall for Coccinelle scripting support. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o authored
The commit cf108bca: "ext4: Invert the locking order of page_lock and transaction start" caused __ext4_journalled_writepage() to drop the page lock before the page was written back, as part of changing the locking order to jbd2_journal_start -> page_lock. However, this introduced a potential race if there was a truncate racing with the data=journalled writeback mode. Fix this by grabbing the page lock after starting the journal handle, and then checking to see if page had gotten truncated out from under us. This fixes a number of different warnings or BUG_ON's when running xfstests generic/086 in data=journalled mode, including: jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata: vdc-8: bad jh for block 115643: transaction (ee3fe7 c0, 164), jh->b_transaction ( (null), 0), jh->b_next_transaction ( (null), 0), jlist 0 - and - kernel BUG at /usr/projects/linux/ext4/fs/jbd2/transaction.c:2200! ... Call Trace: [<c02b2ded>] ? __ext4_journalled_invalidatepage+0x117/0x117 [<c02b2de5>] __ext4_journalled_invalidatepage+0x10f/0x117 [<c02b2ded>] ? __ext4_journalled_invalidatepage+0x117/0x117 [<c027d883>] ? lock_buffer+0x36/0x36 [<c02b2dfa>] ext4_journalled_invalidatepage+0xd/0x22 [<c0229139>] do_invalidatepage+0x22/0x26 [<c0229198>] truncate_inode_page+0x5b/0x85 [<c022934b>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x156/0x38c [<c0229592>] truncate_inode_pages+0x11/0x15 [<c022962d>] truncate_pagecache+0x55/0x71 [<c02b913b>] ext4_setattr+0x4a9/0x560 [<c01ca542>] ? current_kernel_time+0x10/0x44 [<c026c4d8>] notify_change+0x1c7/0x2be [<c0256a00>] do_truncate+0x65/0x85 [<c0226f31>] ? file_ra_state_init+0x12/0x29 - and - WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1331 at /usr/projects/linux/ext4/fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1396 irty_metadata+0x14a/0x1ae() ... Call Trace: [<c01b879f>] ? console_unlock+0x3a1/0x3ce [<c082cbb4>] dump_stack+0x48/0x60 [<c0178b65>] warn_slowpath_common+0x89/0xa0 [<c02ef2cf>] ? jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x14a/0x1ae [<c0178bef>] warn_slowpath_null+0x14/0x18 [<c02ef2cf>] jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x14a/0x1ae [<c02d8615>] __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xd4/0x19d [<c02b2f44>] write_end_fn+0x40/0x53 [<c02b4a16>] ext4_walk_page_buffers+0x4e/0x6a [<c02b59e7>] ext4_writepage+0x354/0x3b8 [<c02b2f04>] ? mpage_release_unused_pages+0xd4/0xd4 [<c02b1b21>] ? wait_on_buffer+0x2c/0x2c [<c02b5a4b>] ? ext4_writepage+0x3b8/0x3b8 [<c02b5a5b>] __writepage+0x10/0x2e [<c0225956>] write_cache_pages+0x22d/0x32c [<c02b5a4b>] ? ext4_writepage+0x3b8/0x3b8 [<c02b6ee8>] ext4_writepages+0x102/0x607 [<c019adfe>] ? sched_clock_local+0x10/0x10e [<c01a8a7c>] ? __lock_is_held+0x2e/0x44 [<c01a8ad5>] ? lock_is_held+0x43/0x51 [<c0226dff>] do_writepages+0x1c/0x29 [<c0276bed>] __writeback_single_inode+0xc3/0x545 [<c0277c07>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x21f/0x36d ... Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Theodore Ts'o authored
We currently don't correctly handle the case where blocksize != pagesize, so disallow the mount in those cases. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 09 Jun, 2015 1 commit
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Namjae Jeon authored
This patch implements fallocate's FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for Ext4. 1) Make sure that both offset and len are block size aligned. 2) Update the i_size of inode by len bytes. 3) Compute the file's logical block number against offset. If the computed block number is not the starting block of the extent, split the extent such that the block number is the starting block of the extent. 4) Shift all the extents which are lying between [offset, last allocated extent] towards right by len bytes. This step will make a hole of len bytes at offset. Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
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- 08 Jun, 2015 11 commits
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Jan Kara authored
jbd2_journal_get_write_access() and jbd2_journal_get_create_access() are frequently called for buffers that are already part of the running transaction - most frequently it is the case for bitmaps, inode table blocks, and superblock. Since in such cases we have nothing to do, it is unfortunate we still grab reference to journal head, lock the bh, lock bh_state only to find out there's nothing to do. Improving this is a bit subtle though since until we find out journal head is attached to the running transaction, it can disappear from under us because checkpointing / commit decided it's no longer needed. We deal with this by protecting journal_head slab with RCU. We still have to be careful about journal head being freed & reallocated within slab and about exposing journal head in consistent state (in particular b_modified and b_frozen_data must be in correct state before we allow user to touch the buffer). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Jan Kara authored
Check for the simple case of unjournaled buffer first, handle it and bail out. This allows us to remove one if and unindent the difficult case by one tab. The result is easier to read. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Jan Kara authored
We were acquiring bh_state_lock when allocation of buffer failed in do_get_write_access() only to be able to jump to a label that releases the lock and does all other checks that don't make sense for this error path. Just jump into the right label instead. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Jan Kara authored
needs_copy is set only in one place in do_get_write_access(), just move the frozen buffer copying into that place and factor it out to a separate function to make do_get_write_access() slightly more readable. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Fabian Frederick authored
[ Added another sparse fix for EXT4_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY while we're at it. --tytso ] Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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David Moore authored
During a source code review of fs/ext4/extents.c I noted identical consecutive lines. An assertion is repeated for inode1 and never done for inode2. This is not in keeping with the rest of the code in the ext4_swap_extents function and appears to be a bug. Assert that the inode2 mutex is not locked. Signed-off-by: David Moore <dmoorefo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Lukas Czerner authored
Currently ext4_mb_good_group() only returns 0 or 1 depending on whether the allocation group is suitable for use or not. However we might get various errors and fail while initializing new group including -EIO which would never get propagated up the call chain. This might lead to an endless loop at writeback when we're trying to find a good group to allocate from and we fail to initialize new group (read error for example). Fix this by returning proper error code from ext4_mb_good_group() and using it in ext4_mb_regular_allocator(). In ext4_mb_regular_allocator() we will always return only the first occurred error from ext4_mb_good_group() and we only propagate it back to the caller if we do not get any other errors and we fail to allocate any blocks. Note that with other modes than errors=continue, we will fail immediately in ext4_mb_good_group() in case of error, however with errors=continue we should try to continue using the file system, that's why we're not going to fail immediately when we see an error from ext4_mb_good_group(), but rather when we fail to find a suitable block group to allocate from due to an problem in group initialization. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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Lukas Czerner authored
Currently on the machines with page size > block size when initializing block group buddy cache we initialize it for all the block group bitmaps in the page. However in the case of read error, checksum error, or if a single bitmap is in any way corrupted we would fail to initialize all of the bitmaps. This is problematic because we will not have access to the other allocation groups even though those might be perfectly fine and usable. Fix this by reading all the bitmaps instead of error out on the first problem and simply skip the bitmaps which were either not read properly, or are not valid. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Lukas Czerner authored
If we want to rely on the buffer_verified() flag of the block bitmap buffer, we have to set it consistently. However currently if we're initializing uninitialized block bitmap in ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait() we're not going to set buffer verified at all. We can do this by simply setting the flag on the buffer, but I think it's actually better to run ext4_validate_block_bitmap() to make sure that what we did in the ext4_init_block_bitmap() is right. So run ext4_validate_block_bitmap() even after the block bitmap initialization. Also bail out early from ext4_validate_block_bitmap() if we see corrupt bitmap, since we already know it's corrupt and we do not need to verify that. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Michal Hocko authored
This basically reverts 47def826 (jbd2: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL from jbd2 layer). The deprecation of __GFP_NOFAIL was a bad choice because it led to open coding the endless loop around the allocator rather than removing the dependency on the non failing allocation. So the deprecation was a clear failure and the reality tells us that __GFP_NOFAIL is not even close to go away. It is still true that __GFP_NOFAIL allocations are generally discouraged and new uses should be evaluated and an alternative (pre-allocations or reservations) should be considered but it doesn't make any sense to lie the allocator about the requirements. Allocator can take steps to help making a progress if it knows the requirements. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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- 03 Jun, 2015 1 commit
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Previously we allocated bounce pages using a combination of alloc_page() and mempool_alloc() with the __GFP_WAIT bit set. Instead, use mempool_alloc() with GFP_NOWAIT. The mempool_alloc() function will try using alloc_pages() initially, and then only use the mempool reserve of pages if alloc_pages() is unable to fulfill the request. This minimizes the the impact on the mm layer when we need to do a large amount of writeback of encrypted files, as Jaeguk Kim had reported that under a heavy fio workload on a system with restricted amounts memory (which unfortunately, includes many mobile handsets), he had observed the the OOM killer getting triggered several times. Using GFP_NOWAIT If the mempool_alloc() function fails, we will retry the page writeback at a later time; the function of the mempool is to ensure that we can writeback at least 32 pages at a time, so we can more efficiently dispatch I/O under high memory pressure situations. In the future we should make this be a tunable so we can determine the best tradeoff between permanently sequestering memory and the ability to quickly launder pages so we can free up memory quickly when necessary. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 31 May, 2015 4 commits
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Chao Yu authored
Crypto resource should be released when ext4 module exits, otherwise it will cause memory leak. Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Fix up attempts by users to try to write to a file when they don't have access to the encryption key. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Previously we were taking the required padding when allocating space for the on-disk symlink. This caused a buffer overrun which could trigger a krenel crash when running fsstress. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o authored
Fix a potential memory leak where fname->crypto_buf.name wouldn't get freed in some error paths, and also make the error handling easier to understand/audit. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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