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ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files
authorLachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Mon, 6 May 2013 03:10:00 +0000 (23:10 -0400)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:43:16 +0000 (11:43 +0200)
commit e6155736ad76b2070652745f9e54cdea3f0d8567 upstream.

In the case where we are allocating for a non-extent file,
we must limit the groups we allocate from to those below
2^32 blocks, and ext4_mb_regular_allocator() attempts to
do this initially by putting a cap on ngroups for the
subsequent search loop.

However, the initial target group comes in from the
allocation context (ac), and it may already be beyond
the artificially limited ngroups.  In this case,
the limit

if (group == ngroups)
group = 0;

at the top of the loop is never true, and the loop will
run away.

Catch this case inside the loop and reset the search to
start at group 0.

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Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
fs/ext4/mballoc.c

index c7e8bdb40981091329175a2093aaadeb27341afa..cecf2a5681246d967a93c6cde6748351086a45dc 100644 (file)
@@ -2070,7 +2070,11 @@ repeat:
                group = ac->ac_g_ex.fe_group;
 
                for (i = 0; i < ngroups; group++, i++) {
-                       if (group == ngroups)
+                       /*
+                        * Artificially restricted ngroups for non-extent
+                        * files makes group > ngroups possible on first loop.
+                        */
+                       if (group >= ngroups)
                                group = 0;
 
                        /* This now checks without needing the buddy page */