On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 01:21:01AM +0800, Kemeng Shi wrote: > We need to set ac_g_ex to notify the goal start used in > ext4_mb_find_by_goal. Set ac_g_ex instead of ac_f_ex in > ext4_mb_normalize_request. > Besides we should assure goal start is in range [first_data_block, > blocks_count) as ext4_mb_initialize_context does. > > Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 15 +++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c > index 5b2ae37a8b80..36cd545f5ab4 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c > @@ -3993,6 +3993,7 @@ ext4_mb_normalize_request(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac, > struct ext4_allocation_request *ar) > { > struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(ac->ac_sb); > + struct ext4_super_block *es = sbi->s_es; > int bsbits, max; > ext4_lblk_t end; > loff_t size, start_off; > @@ -4188,18 +4189,20 @@ ext4_mb_normalize_request(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac, > ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len = EXT4_NUM_B2C(sbi, size); > > /* define goal start in order to merge */ > - if (ar->pright && (ar->lright == (start + size))) { > + if (ar->pright && (ar->lright == (start + size)) && > + ar->pright - size >= le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block)) { > /* merge to the right */ I had to ammend this commit to add this check: /* define goal start in order to merge */ if (ar->pright && (ar->lright == (start + size)) && + ar->pright >= size && ar->pright - size >= le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block)) { Without this check, it's possible for ar->pright - size to go negative (well, underflow since it's an unsigned value). This will later trigger a BUG_ON, which was easily reproduced via: kvm-xfstests -c ext4/ext3conv generic/231 Cheers, - Ted