ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes

commit 5012284700775a4e6e3fbe7eac4c543c4874b559 upstream.

Commit 8844618d8aa7: "ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is
valid" will complain if block group zero does not have the
EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED flag set.  Unfortunately, this is not correct,
since a freshly created file system has this flag cleared.  It gets
almost immediately after the file system is mounted read-write --- but
the following somewhat unlikely sequence will end up triggering a
false positive report of a corrupted file system:

   mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdc
   mount -o ro /dev/vdc /vdc
   mount -o remount,rw /dev/vdc

Instead, when initializing the inode table for block group zero, test
to make sure that itable_unused count is not too large, since that is
the case that will result in some or all of the reserved inodes
getting cleared.

This fixes the failures reported by Eric Whiteney when running
generic/230 and generic/231 in the the nojournal test case.

Fixes: 8844618d8aa7 ("ext4: only look at the bg_flags field if it is valid")
Reported-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 4658e42bc86ecabace165ebbc3158f39b1c6df22..bc9b595a2d6d9739aff8cc79f8e2f121204b2df6 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -1289,7 +1289,10 @@ int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
                            ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp)),
                            sbi->s_inodes_per_block);
 
-       if ((used_blks < 0) || (used_blks > sbi->s_itb_per_group)) {
+       if ((used_blks < 0) || (used_blks > sbi->s_itb_per_group) ||
+           ((group == 0) && ((EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) -
+                              ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp)) <
+                             EXT4_FIRST_INO(sb)))) {
                ext4_error(sb, "Something is wrong with group %u: "
                           "used itable blocks: %d; "
                           "itable unused count: %u",

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 0b2770604d8dc64be08be953730fc0e0da172f67..3ed269d8f113b6fe293d1ee9aa324f6a0f59c42d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3088,14 +3088,8 @@ static ext4_group_t ext4_has_uninit_itable(struct super_block *sb)
                if (!gdp)
                        continue;
 
-               if (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED))
-                       continue;
-               if (group != 0)
+               if (!(gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_ZEROED)))
                        break;
-               ext4_error(sb, "Inode table for bg 0 marked as "
-                          "needing zeroing");
-               if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
-                       return ngroups;
        }
 
        return group;