Now that in the error patch of extent updating procedure cannot handle error and roll-back partial updates properly, so we could access the left inconsistent extent buffer later and lead to BUGON in errors=continue mode. For example, we could get below BUGON if we update leaf extent but failed to update index extent in ext4_ext_insert_extent() and try to alloc block again. kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:4085! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 30 PID: 1177 Comm: xfs_io Not tainted 5.14.0-00006-g555c93b65a81 #543 RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_normalize_request.constprop.0+0x72c/0x8a0 RSP: 0018:ffffb398c0abb8d8 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8d79d3125000 RCX: 0000000000001500 RDX: 0000000000001500 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffb398c0abba50 RBP: 0000000000001500 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00000000000015c0 R10: 0000000000660000 R11: ffff8d79e21212d8 R12: ffff8d79e21215b8 R13: 0000000000001500 R14: ffffb398c0abba50 R15: ffff8d79e21215b8 FS: 00007f1bf519f800(0000) GS:ffff8d80e5d80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000560c5b96d000 CR3: 000000010f170000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x8f3/0x1c90 ? __read_extent_tree_block+0x20a/0x260 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xb7c/0x1d30 ext4_map_blocks+0x15d/0xa30 ? __cond_resched+0x1d/0x50 ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x206/0x400 _ext4_get_block+0xa8/0x170 ext4_get_block+0x1a/0x30 ext4_block_write_begin+0x179/0x8c0 ? ext4_get_block_unwritten+0x20/0x20 ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x179/0x1d0 ext4_write_begin+0x42d/0x910 ext4_da_write_begin+0x2eb/0x750 generic_perform_write+0xcb/0x280 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0xc3/0x1e0 ext4_file_write_iter+0x70/0xac0 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30 ? __handle_mm_fault+0x13e1/0x2520 new_sync_write+0x166/0x220 vfs_write+0x1d7/0x3b0 ksys_pwrite64+0x85/0xf0 __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x22/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae RIP: 0033:0x7f1bf5760378 This patch set address to enhance extent check in __ext4_ext_check() and force check buffer again through clear buffer's verified bit if we breaks off extent updating. Thanks, Yi. Zhang Yi (3): ext4: check for out-of-order index extents in ext4_valid_extent_entries() ext4: check for inconsistent extents between index and leaf block ext4: prevent partial update of the extent blocks fs/ext4/extents.c | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1