FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: fix off by one issue in" failed to apply to 6.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.4.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 5d5460fa7932bed3a9082a6a8852cfbdb46acbe8
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2023072456-starting-gauging-768c@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 5d5460fa7932bed3a9082a6a8852cfbdb46acbe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 16:04:03 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix off by one issue in
 ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail()

In ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail(), we want the start order to be
1 less than goal length and the min_order to be, at max, 1 more than the
original length. This commit fixes an off by one issue that arose due to
the fact that 1 << fls(n) > (n).

After all the processing:

order = 1 order below goal len
min_order = maximum of the three:-
             - order - trim_order
             - 1 order below B2C(s_stripe)
             - 1 order above original len

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 33122aa930 ("ext4: Add allocation criteria 1.5 (CR1_5)")
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230609103403.112807-1-ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index a2475b8c9fb5..456150ef6111 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -1006,14 +1006,11 @@ static void ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail(struct ext4_allocation_context
 	 * fls() instead since we need to know the actual length while modifying
 	 * goal length.
 	 */
-	order = fls(ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len);
+	order = fls(ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len) - 1;
 	min_order = order - sbi->s_mb_best_avail_max_trim_order;
 	if (min_order < 0)
 		min_order = 0;
 
-	if (1 << min_order < ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len)
-		min_order = fls(ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len) + 1;
-
 	if (sbi->s_stripe > 0) {
 		/*
 		 * We are assuming that stripe size is always a multiple of
@@ -1021,9 +1018,16 @@ static void ext4_mb_choose_next_group_best_avail(struct ext4_allocation_context
 		 */
 		num_stripe_clusters = EXT4_NUM_B2C(sbi, sbi->s_stripe);
 		if (1 << min_order < num_stripe_clusters)
-			min_order = fls(num_stripe_clusters);
+			/*
+			 * We consider 1 order less because later we round
+			 * up the goal len to num_stripe_clusters
+			 */
+			min_order = fls(num_stripe_clusters) - 1;
 	}
 
+	if (1 << min_order < ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len)
+		min_order = fls(ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len);
+
 	for (i = order; i >= min_order; i--) {
 		int frag_order;
 		/*