Re: [RFC PATCH 02/16] ext4: make sure allocate pending entry not fail

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On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 03:25:03PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 24-08-23 17:26:05, Zhang Yi wrote:
> > From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > __insert_pending() allocate memory in atomic context, so the allocation
> > could fail, but we are not handling that failure now. It could lead
> > ext4_es_remove_extent() to get wrong reserved clusters, and the global
> > data blocks reservation count will be incorrect. The same to
> > extents_status entry preallocation, preallocate pending entry out of the
> > i_es_lock with __GFP_NOFAIL, make sure __insert_pending() and
> > __revise_pending() always succeeds.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks sensible. Feel free to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, I've applied the first two patches in this series, since these
are bug fixes.  The rest of the patch series requires more analysis
and review.

						- Ted



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