We should warn user then the discard request fails. However we need to
exclude -EOPNOTSUPP case since parts of the device might not support it
while other parts can. So print the kernel warning when the error !=
-EOPNOTSUPP is returned from ext4_issue_discard().
We should also handle error cases in batched discard, again excluding
EOPNOTSUPP.
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
I think the whole function could be made prettier, but
that goto really took the cake for too-clever-by-half.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
bug (CVE-2012-4508) which leads to stale data exposure when we have
fallocate racing against writes to files undergoing delayed
allocation. We also have two fixes for the metadata checksum feature,
the most serious of which can cause the superblock to have a invalid
checksum after a power failure.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Various bug fixes for ext4. The most serious of them fixes a security
bug (CVE-2012-4508) which leads to stale data exposure when we have
fallocate racing against writes to files undergoing delayed
allocation. We also have two fixes for the metadata checksum feature,
the most serious of which can cause the superblock to have a invalid
checksum after a power failure."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Avoid underflow in ext4_trim_fs()
ext4: Checksum the block bitmap properly with bigalloc enabled
ext4: fix undefined bit shift result in ext4_fill_flex_info
ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock
ext4: race-condition protection for ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio
ext4: serialize fallocate with ext4_convert_unwritten_extents
Currently if len argument in ext4_trim_fs() is smaller than one block,
the 'end' variable underflow. Avoid that by returning EINVAL if len is
smaller than file system block.
Also remove useless unlikely().
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
In mke2fs, we only checksum the whole bitmap block and it is right.
While in the kernel, we use EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP to indicate the
size of the checksumed bitmap which is wrong when we enable bigalloc.
The right size should be EXT4_CLUSTERS_PER_GROUP and this patch fixes
it.
Also as every caller of ext4_block_bitmap_csum_set and
ext4_block_bitmap_csum_verify pass in EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)/8,
we'd better removes this parameter and sets it in the function itself.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
using the meta_bg feature. This allows us to resize file systems
which are greater than 16TB. In addition, the speed of online
resizing has been improved in general.
We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks,
in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good
work by Dmitry Monakhov.
There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups
from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have
submitted fixes for the first time.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"The big new feature added this time is supporting online resizing
using the meta_bg feature. This allows us to resize file systems
which are greater than 16TB. In addition, the speed of online
resizing has been improved in general.
We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks,
in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good
work by Dmitry Monakhov.
There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups
from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have
submitted fixes for the first time."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (69 commits)
ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics
ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode
ext4: fix ext_remove_space for punch_hole case
ext4: punch_hole should wait for DIO writers
ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers
ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers
ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate
ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers
ext4: completed_io locking cleanup
ext4: fix unwritten counter leakage
ext4: give i_aiodio_unwritten a more appropriate name
ext4: ext4_inode_info diet
ext4: convert to use leXX_add_cpu()
ext4: ext4_bread usage audit
fs: reserve fallocate flag codepoint
ext4: remove redundant offset check in mext_check_arguments()
ext4: don't clear orphan list on ro mount with errors
jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits
ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails
ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system
...
Pull the trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"Tiny usual fixes all over the place"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
doc: fix old config name of kprobetrace
fs/fs-writeback.c: cleanup riteback_sb_inodes kerneldoc
btrfs: fix the commment for the action flags in delayed-ref.h
btrfs: fix trivial typo for the comment of BTRFS_FREE_INO_OBJECTID
vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()
treewide: fix comment/printk/variable typos
ipr: fix small coding style issues
doc: fix broken utf8 encoding
nfs: comment fix
platform/x86: fix asus_laptop.wled_type module parameter
mfd: printk/comment fixes
doc: getdelays.c: remember to close() socket on error in create_nl_socket()
doc: aliasing-test: close fd on write error
mmc: fix comment typos
dma: fix comments
spi: fix comment/printk typos in spi
Coccinelle: fix typo in memdup_user.cocci
tmiofb: missing NULL pointer checks
tools: perf: Fix typo in tools/perf
tools/testing: fix comment / output typos
...
With a minor tweaks regarding minimum extent size to discard and
discarded bytes reporting the FITRIM can be enabled on bigalloc file
system and it works without any problem.
This patch fixes minlen handling and discarded bytes reporting to
take into consideration bigalloc enabled file systems and finally
removes the restriction and allow FITRIM to be used on file system with
bigalloc feature enabled.
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Using kmem_cache_zalloc() instead of kmem_cache_alloc() and memset().
spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Free block counters should be checked before doing allocation.
Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This is a revert of commit b56ff9d397, which removed the call to
ext4_issue_discard() to fix a BUG reported because
ext4_issue_discard() was being called from inside a block group
spinlock. As it turns out this bug had already been fixed by Lukas
Czerner in commit 53fdcf992d by the simple expedient of moving when
we call ext4_issue_discard() outside the spinlock.
So it should be safe to re-enable this functionality, which I tested
by putting an BUG_ON(in_atomic) just after the restored callsite to
ext4_issue_discard().
Addresses-Google-Bug: #6750518
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Previously we allocated the s_group_info array with enough space for
any future possible growth of the file system via online resize. This
is unfortunate because it wastes memory, and it doesn't work for the
meta_bg scheme, since there is no limit based on the number of
reserved gdt blocks. So add the code to grow the s_group_info array
as needed.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
All the routines call mb_find_extent are setting argument 'order' to 0
just like:
mb_find_extent(e4b, 0, ex.fe_start, ex.fe_len, &ex);
therefore the useless argument should be removed.
Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add a short circuit check to ext4_mb_group_group() so that we don't
bother to load the block bitmap for a block group which does not have
any space available. (Or which does not have enough space until we
are in desperation mode, i.e., when cr == 3.)
Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45741
Reported-by: mirek@me.com
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit a0375156 properly notes that superblock doesn't need to be marked
as dirty when only number of free inodes / blocks / number of directories
changes since that is recomputed on each mount anyway. However that comment
leaves some unnecessary markings as dirty in place. Remove these.
Artem: tested using xfstests for both journalled and non-journalled ext4.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
In this patch, the statement "poff = block % blocks_per_page"
in ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock has no effect.
It will be optimized out by the compiler, but it's better to remove it.
Signed-off-by: Haibo Liu <HaiboLiu6@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently ext4_mb_load_buddy is called for every group, irrespective
of whether the group info is already in memory, while reading
/proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/mb_groups proc file. For the purpose of
mb_groups proc file, it is unnecessary to load the file group info
from disk if it was loaded in past. These calls to ext4_mb_load_buddy
make reading the mb_groups proc file expensive.
Also, the locks around ext4_get_group_info are not required.
This patch modifies the code to call ext4_mb_load_buddy only if the
group info had never been loaded into memory in past. It also removes
the mb group locking around ext4_get_group_info call.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We can't have references held on pages in the s_buddy_cache while we are
trying to truncate its pages and put the inode. All the pages must be
gone before we reach clear_inode. This can only be gauranteed if we
can prevent new users from grabbing references to s_buddy_cache's pages.
The original bug can be reproduced and the bug fix can be verified by:
while true; do mount -t ext4 /dev/ram0 /export/hda3/ram0; \
umount /export/hda3/ram0; done &
while true; do cat /proc/fs/ext4/ram0/mb_groups; done
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
ext4_free_blocks fails to pair an ext4_mb_load_buddy with a matching
ext4_mb_unload_buddy when it fails a memory allocation.
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
remove 'len' variable in ext4_discard_allocated_blocks() because it is
useless.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
needs_recovery in ext4_mb_init() is not used, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.ne.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
metadata_csum supersedes uninit_bg. Convert the ROCOMPAT uninit_bg
flag check to a helper function that covers both, and make the
checksum calculation algorithm use either crc16 or the metadata_csum
chosen algorithm depending on which flag is set. Print a warning if
we try to mount a filesystem with both feature flags set.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Compute and verify the checksum of the block bitmap; this checksum is
stored in the block group descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently if the range to trim is too small, for example on 1K fs
the request to trim the first block, then the 'range->len' is not set
reporting wrong number of discarded block to the caller.
Fix this by always setting the 'range->len' before we return. Note that
when there is a failure (-EINVAL) caller can not depend on 'range->len'
being set properly.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently when there is not enough free blocks in the block group to
discard (grp->bb_free < minlen) the 'trimmed' is bumped up anyway with
the number of discarded blocks from the previous iteration. Fix this
by bumping up 'trimmed' only if the ext4_trim_all_free() was actually
run.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The overflow can happen when we are calling get_group_no_and_offset()
which stores the group number in the ext4_grpblk_t type which is
actually int. However when the blocknr is big enough the group number
might be bigger than ext4_grpblk_t resulting in overflow. This will
most likely happen with FITRIM default argument len = ULLONG_MAX.
Fix this by using "end" variable instead of "start+len" as it is easier
to get right and specifically check that the end is not beyond the end
of the file system, so we are sure that the result of
get_group_no_and_offset() will not overflow. Otherwise truncate it to
the size of the file system.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The functions ext4_msg() and ext4_error() already tack on a trailing
newline, so remove the unnecessary extra newline.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_msg adds "EXT4-fs: " to the messsage output.
Remove the redundant bits from uses.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The EXT4_MB_BITMAP and EXT4_MB_BUDDY macros obfuscate more than they
provide any abstraction. So remove them.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The 'orig_size' local variable is only used in a call to
mb_debug(). Mark it with '__maybe_unused'.
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The per-commit callback was used by mballoc code to manage free space
bitmaps after deleted blocks have been released. This patch expands
it to support multiple different callbacks, to allow other things to
be done after the commit has been completed.
Signed-off-by: Bobi Jam <bobijam@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_read_{inode,block}_bitmap() we were setting bitmap_uptodate()
before submitting the buffer for read. The is bad, since we check
bitmap_uptodate() without locking the buffer, and so if another
process is racing with us, it's possible that they will think the
bitmap is uptodate even though the read has not completed yet,
resulting in inodes and blocks potentially getting allocated more than
once if we get really unlucky.
Addresses-Google-Bug: 2828254
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
pa_inode in group_pa is set NULL in ext4_mb_new_group_pa, so
pa_inode should be not referenced.
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The comment says the bit should be 0, but the after code assert the
bit to be 1. This makes people confused, so fix it.
Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The variable 'ord' in function mb_find_extent() is redundant, so
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The variable 'count' in function ext4_mb_generate_from_pa() looks
useless, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The kernel will crash on
ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used:
BUG_ON(ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len <= 0);
after we set /sys/fs/ext4/sda/mb_group_prealloc to zero and create new files in an ext4 filesystem.
The reason is: ac_b_ex.fe_len also set to zero(mb_group_prealloc) in ext4_mb_normalize_group_request
because the ac_flags contains EXT4_MB_HINT_GROUP_ALLOC.
I think when someone set mb_group_prealloc to zero, it means DO NOT USE GROUP PREALLOCATION,
so we should set alloc-strategy to STREAM in this case.
Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Quota file is fs's metadata, so it is reasonable to permit use
root resevation if necessary. This patch fix 265'th xfstest failure
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In commit 79a77c5ac, we move ext4_mb_init_backend after the allocation
of s_locality_group to avoid memory leak in error path, but there are
still some other error paths in ext4_mb_init that need to do the same
work. So this patch adds all the error patch for ext4_mb_init. And all
the pointers are reset to NULL in case the caller may double free them.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This function really claims a number of free clusters, not blocks, so
rename it so it's clearer what's going on.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This function really returns the number of clusters after initializing
an uninitalized block bitmap has been initialized.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The field bg_free_blocks_count_{lo,high} in the block group
descriptor has been repurposed to hold the number of free clusters for
bigalloc functions. So rename the functions so it makes it easier to
read and audit the block allocation and block freeing code.
Note: at this point in bigalloc development we doesn't support
online resize, so this also makes it really obvious all of the places
we need to fix up to add support for online resize.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
With bigalloc changes, the i_blocks value was not correctly set (it was still
set to number of blocks being used, but in case of bigalloc, we want i_blocks
to represent the number of clusters being used). Since the quota subsystem sets
the i_blocks value, this patch fixes the quota accounting and makes sure that
the i_blocks value is set correctly.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The default group preallocation size had been previously set to 512
blocks/clusters, regardless of the block/cluster size. This is
probably too big for large cluster sizes. So adjust the default so
that it is 2 megabytes or 32 clusters, whichever is larger.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Convert the free_blocks to be free_clusters to make the final revised
bigalloc changes easier to read/understand.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Convert the percpu counters s_dirtyblocks_counter and
s_freeblocks_counter in struct ext4_super_info to be
s_dirtyclusters_counter and s_freeclusters_counter.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The ext4_free_blocks() function now has two new flags that indicate
whether a partial cluster at the beginning or the end of the block
extents should be freed or not. That will be up the caller (i.e.,
truncate), who can figure out whether partial clusters at the
beginning or the end of a block range can be freed.
We also have to update the ext4_mb_free_metadata() and
release_blocks_on_commit() machinery to be cluster-based, since it is
used by ext4_free_blocks().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In most of mballoc.c, we do everything in units of clusters, since the
block allocation bitmaps and buddy bitmaps are all denominated in
clusters. The one place where we do deal with absolute block numbers
is in the code that handles the preallocation regions, since in the
case of inode-based preallocation regions, the start of the
preallocation region can't be relative to the beginning of the group.
So this adds a bit of complexity, where pa_pstart and pa_lstart are
block numbers, while pa_free, pa_len, and fe_len are denominated in
units of clusters.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
