From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Monakhov , Theodore Tso Subject: [PATCH 3.16 096/125] ext4: fix incorect journal credits reservation in ext4_zero_range Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 15:07:33 -0700 Message-Id: <20140903220626.559692334@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140903220623.649748296@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140903220623.649748296@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dmitry Monakhov commit 69dc9536405213c1d545fcace1fc15c481d00aae upstream. Currently we reserve only 4 blocks but in worst case scenario ext4_zero_partial_blocks() may want to zeroout and convert two non adjacent blocks. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4730,6 +4730,7 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file loff_t new_size = 0; int ret = 0; int flags; + int credits; int partial; loff_t start, end; ext4_lblk_t lblk; @@ -4829,8 +4830,14 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file if (ret) goto out_dio; } - - handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MISC, 4); + /* + * In worst case we have to writeout two nonadjacent unwritten + * blocks and update the inode + */ + credits = (2 * ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(inode, 2)) + 1; + if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) + credits += 2; + handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MISC, credits); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { ret = PTR_ERR(handle); ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, ret);