• Lachlan McIlroy's avatar
    ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files · e6155736
    Lachlan McIlroy authored
    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: default avatarLachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    e6155736
mballoc.c 141 KB