Estimate for the number of credits needed for final freeing of inode in ext4_evict_inode() was to small. We may modify 4 blocks (inode & sb for orphan deletion, bitmap & group descriptor for inode freeing) and not just 3. Fixes: e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support") CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 516faa280ced..81bc2fb23c40 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -196,7 +196,12 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) { handle_t *handle; int err; - int extra_credits = 3; + /* + * Credits for final inode cleanup and freeing: + * sb + inode (ext4_orphan_del()), block bitmap, group descriptor + * (xattr block freeing), bitmap, group descriptor (inode freeing) + */ + int extra_credits = 6; struct ext4_xattr_inode_array *ea_inode_array = NULL; trace_ext4_evict_inode(inode); @@ -252,8 +257,12 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode) if (!IS_NOQUOTA(inode)) extra_credits += EXT4_MAXQUOTAS_DEL_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb); + /* + * Block bitmap, group descriptor, and inode are accounted in both + * ext4_blocks_for_truncate() and extra_credits. So subtract 3. + */ handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_TRUNCATE, - ext4_blocks_for_truncate(inode)+extra_credits); + ext4_blocks_for_truncate(inode) + extra_credits - 3); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, PTR_ERR(handle)); /* -- 2.16.4