From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> We need to init the complete page during buddy cache init by setting the contents to '1'. Otherwise we can see the following errors after doing an online resize of the filesystem: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used: Allocating block 1040385 in system zone of 127 group Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx (cherry picked from commit 29eaf024980e07cc01f31ae4ea5d68c917f4b7da) --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 851411f..8d7f8a1 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -846,6 +846,8 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore) err = 0; first_block = page->index * blocks_per_page; + /* init the page */ + memset(page_address(page), 0xff, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); for (i = 0; i < blocks_per_page; i++) { int group; struct ext4_group_info *grinfo; @@ -872,7 +874,6 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore) BUG_ON(incore == NULL); mb_debug("put buddy for group %u in page %lu/%x\n", group, page->index, i * blocksize); - memset(data, 0xff, blocksize); grinfo = ext4_get_group_info(sb, group); grinfo->bb_fragments = 0; memset(grinfo->bb_counters, 0, -- 1.5.6.3 -- 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