From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: fix missing percpu_counter_inc (fwd)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:45:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200610084514.GC12551@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.2006091312530.31685@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>
On Tue 09-06-20 13:14:18, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> I'm resending this because I didn't get any response.
I'm sorry far that. The patch got buried in my inbox... I've queued it up
now. Thanks!
Honza
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:02:21 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
> To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] ext2: fix missing percpu_counter_inc
>
> sbi->s_freeinodes_counter is only decreased by the ext2 code, it is never
> increased. This patch fixes it.
>
> Note that sbi->s_freeinodes_counter is only used in the algorithm that
> tries to find the group for new allocations, so this bug is not easily
> visible (the only visibility is that the group finding algorithm selects
> inoptinal result).
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>
> ---
> fs/ext2/ialloc.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext2/ialloc.c 2019-09-20 14:39:07.951999000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext2/ialloc.c 2020-04-20 21:33:26.389999000 +0200
> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ static void ext2_release_inode(struct su
> if (dir)
> le16_add_cpu(&desc->bg_used_dirs_count, -1);
> spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT2_SB(sb), group));
> + percpu_counter_inc(&EXT2_SB(sb)->s_freeinodes_counter);
> if (dir)
> percpu_counter_dec(&EXT2_SB(sb)->s_dirs_counter);
> mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
> @@ -528,7 +529,7 @@ got:
> goto fail;
> }
>
> - percpu_counter_add(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter, -1);
> + percpu_counter_dec(&sbi->s_freeinodes_counter);
> if (S_ISDIR(mode))
> percpu_counter_inc(&sbi->s_dirs_counter);
>
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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2020-06-09 17:14 [PATCH] ext2: fix missing percpu_counter_inc (fwd) Mikulas Patocka
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