On 22/02/01 12:21PM, Jan Kara wrote: > On Mon 31-01-22 20:46:50, Ritesh Harjani wrote: > > In case of flex_bg feature (which is by default enabled), extents for > > any given inode might span across blocks from two different block group. > > ext4_mb_mark_bb() only reads the buffer_head of block bitmap once for the > > starting block group, but it fails to read it again when the extent length > > boundary overflows to another block group. Then in this below loop it > > accesses memory beyond the block group bitmap buffer_head and results > > into a data abort. > > > > for (i = 0; i < clen; i++) > > if (!mb_test_bit(blkoff + i, bitmap_bh->b_data) == !state) > > already++; > > > > This patch adds this functionality for checking block group boundary in > > ext4_mb_mark_bb() and update the buffer_head(bitmap_bh) for every different > > block group. > > > > w/o this patch, I was easily able to hit a data access abort using Power platform. > > > > <...> > > [ 74.327662] EXT4-fs error (device loop3): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:1141: group 11, block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 21248 vs 23294 free clusters > > [ 74.533214] EXT4-fs (loop3): shut down requested (2) > > [ 74.536705] Aborting journal on device loop3-8. > > [ 74.702705] BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc00000005e980000 > > [ 74.703727] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000007bffb8 > > cpu 0xd: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000015db7060] > > pc: c0000000007bffb8: ext4_mb_mark_bb+0x198/0x5a0 > > lr: c0000000007bfeec: ext4_mb_mark_bb+0xcc/0x5a0 > > sp: c000000015db7300 > > msr: 800000000280b033 > > dar: c00000005e980000 > > dsisr: 40000000 > > current = 0xc000000027af6880 > > paca = 0xc00000003ffd5200 irqmask: 0x03 irq_happened: 0x01 > > pid = 5167, comm = mount > > <...> > > enter ? for help > > [c000000015db7380] c000000000782708 ext4_ext_clear_bb+0x378/0x410 > > [c000000015db7400] c000000000813f14 ext4_fc_replay+0x1794/0x2000 > > [c000000015db7580] c000000000833f7c do_one_pass+0xe9c/0x12a0 > > [c000000015db7710] c000000000834504 jbd2_journal_recover+0x184/0x2d0 > > [c000000015db77c0] c000000000841398 jbd2_journal_load+0x188/0x4a0 > > [c000000015db7880] c000000000804de8 ext4_fill_super+0x2638/0x3e10 > > [c000000015db7a40] c0000000005f8404 get_tree_bdev+0x2b4/0x350 > > [c000000015db7ae0] c0000000007ef058 ext4_get_tree+0x28/0x40 > > [c000000015db7b00] c0000000005f6344 vfs_get_tree+0x44/0x100 > > [c000000015db7b70] c00000000063c408 path_mount+0xdd8/0xe70 > > [c000000015db7c40] c00000000063c8f0 sys_mount+0x450/0x550 > > [c000000015db7d50] c000000000035770 system_call_exception+0x4a0/0x4e0 > > [c000000015db7e10] c00000000000c74c system_call_common+0xec/0x250 > > --- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 00007ffff7dbfaa4 > > > > Fixes: 8016e29f4362e28 ("ext4: fast commit recovery path") > > Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c > > index c781974df9d0..8d23108cf9d7 100644 > > --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c > > +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c > > @@ -3899,12 +3899,29 @@ void ext4_mb_mark_bb(struct super_block *sb, ext4_fsblk_t block, > > struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb); > > ext4_group_t group; > > ext4_grpblk_t blkoff; > > - int i, clen, err; > > + int i, err; > > int already; > > + unsigned int clen, overflow; > > > > - clen = EXT4_B2C(sbi, len); > > - > > +again: > > And maybe structure this as a while loop? Like: > > while (len > 0) { > ... > } Sure, will check. > > > + overflow = 0; > > ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(sb, block, &group, &blkoff); > > + > > + /* > > + * Check to see if we are freeing blocks across a group > > + * boundary. > > + * In case of flex_bg, this can happen that (block, len) may span across > > + * more than one group. In that case we need to get the corresponding > > + * group metadata to work with. For this we have goto again loop. > > + */ > > + if (EXT4_C2B(sbi, blkoff) + len > EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)) { > > + overflow = EXT4_C2B(sbi, blkoff) + len - > > + EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb); > > + len -= overflow; > > Why not just: > > thisgrp_len = min_t(int, len, > EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) - EXT4_C2B(sbi, blkoff)); > clen = EXT4_NUM_B2C(sbi, thisgrp_len); > > It seems easier to understand to me. Agree, will make this change. -ritesh