From: Jan Kara Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:34:30 +0000 (-0500) Subject: ext4: trim allocation requests to group size X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2^2^2~119 X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8774c73cf6963310395823ed7077ea12943ea0f3;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git ext4: trim allocation requests to group size commit cd648b8a8fd5071d232242d5ee7ee3c0815776af upstream. If filesystem groups are artifically small (using parameter -g to mkfs.ext4), ext4_mb_normalize_request() can result in a request that is larger than a block group. Trim the request size to not confuse allocation code. Reported-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index b7a3957a9dca..84cd77663e1f 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -3120,6 +3120,13 @@ ext4_mb_normalize_request(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac, if (ar->pright && start + size - 1 >= ar->lright) size -= start + size - ar->lright; + /* + * Trim allocation request for filesystems with artificially small + * groups. + */ + if (size > EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(ac->ac_sb)) + size = EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(ac->ac_sb); + end = start + size; /* check we don't cross already preallocated blocks */