ext4: fix partial cluster handling for bigalloc file systems
authorEric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:34:16 +0000 (23:34 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:49:21 +0000 (16:49 -0700)
commit09f052fac4546b1d1c4623a912d60b3a1a40cab5
tree44d98d214fba93520f49d06d897e446a82bc6135
parentee16aadfc3f2835f11fbb3f58512952bbe52721b
ext4: fix partial cluster handling for bigalloc file systems

commit c06344939422bbd032ac967223a7863de57496b5 upstream.

Commit 9cb00419fa, which enables hole punching for bigalloc file
systems, exposed a bug introduced by commit 6ae06ff51e in an earlier
release.  When run on a bigalloc file system, xfstests generic/013, 068,
075, 083, 091, 100, 112, 127, 263, 269, and 270 fail with e2fsck errors
or cause kernel error messages indicating that previously freed blocks
are being freed again.

The latter commit optimizes the selection of the starting extent in
ext4_ext_rm_leaf() when hole punching by beginning with the extent
supplied in the path argument rather than with the last extent in the
leaf node (as is still done when truncating).  However, the code in
rm_leaf that initially sets partial_cluster to track cluster sharing on
extent boundaries is only guaranteed to run if rm_leaf starts with the
last node in the leaf.  Consequently, partial_cluster is not correctly
initialized when hole punching, and a cluster on the boundary of a
punched region that should be retained may instead be deallocated.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/extents.c