This fixes a leak of blocks in an inode prealloc list if device failures cause ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used() to fail. Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -uprN orig/fs/ext4/mballoc.c new/fs/ext4/mballoc.c --- orig/fs/ext4/mballoc.c 2009-12-01 09:27:25.000000000 -0800 +++ new/fs/ext4/mballoc.c 2009-12-01 09:28:38.000000000 -0800 @@ -3011,6 +3011,22 @@ static void ext4_mb_collect_stats(struct } /* + * Called on failure; free up any blocks from the inode PA for this + * context. + */ +static void ext4_discard_inode_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) +{ + struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa = ac->ac_pa; + int len; + + if (pa && pa->pa_type == MB_INODE_PA) { + len = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len; + pa->pa_free += len; + } + +} + +/* * use blocks preallocated to inode */ static void ext4_mb_use_inode_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac, @@ -4295,6 +4311,7 @@ repeat: ac->ac_status = AC_STATUS_CONTINUE; goto repeat; } else if (*errp) { + ext4_discard_inode_pa(ac); ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len = 0; ar->len = 0; ext4_mb_show_ac(ac); -- 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