[PATCH 4.9 60/60] btrfs: compression: dont try to compress if we dont have enough pages

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-26T15:46:35Z

From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

commit f2165627319ffd33a6217275e5690b1ab5c45763 upstream

The early check if we should attempt compression does not take into
account the number of input pages. It can happen that there's only one
page, eg. a tail page after some ranges of the BTRFS_MAX_UNCOMPRESSED
have been processed, or an isolated page that won't be converted to an
inline extent.

The single page would be compressed but a later check would drop it
again because the result size must be at least one block shorter than
the input. That can never work with just one page.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[sudip: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ again:
* inode has not been flagged as nocompress. This flag can
* change at any time if we discover bad compression ratios.
*/
- if (inode_need_compress(inode)) {
+ if (nr_pages > 1 && inode_need_compress(inode)) {
WARN_ON(pages);
pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
if (!pages) {