We should mark inode dirty only after initializing the extent tree. Also if we fail during extent initialization we need to call DQUOT_FREE_INODE. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c index 4ee44fa..4fc0db5 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -835,11 +835,6 @@ got: if (err) goto fail_free_drop; - err = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); - if (err) { - ext4_std_error(sb, err); - goto fail_free_drop; - } if (test_opt(sb, EXTENTS)) { /* set extent flag only for diretory, file and normal symlink*/ if (S_ISDIR(mode) || S_ISREG(mode) || S_ISLNK(mode)) { @@ -848,10 +843,16 @@ got: err = ext4_update_incompat_feature(handle, sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_EXTENTS); if (err) - goto fail; + goto fail_free_drop; } } + err = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); + if (err) { + ext4_std_error(sb, err); + goto fail_free_drop; + } + ext4_debug("allocating inode %lu\n", inode->i_ino); goto really_out; fail: -- 1.5.5.23.g2a5fe.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html