This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix check to prevent false positive report of incorrect used inodes to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-fix-check-to-prevent-false-positive-report-of-incorrect-used-inodes.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a149d2a5cabbf6507a7832a1c4fd2593c55fd450 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:15:16 +0800 Subject: ext4: fix check to prevent false positive report of incorrect used inodes From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a149d2a5cabbf6507a7832a1c4fd2593c55fd450 upstream. Commit <50122847007> ("ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes") check the block group zero and prevent initializing reserved inodes. But in some special cases, the reserved inode may not all belong to the group zero, it may exist into the second group if we format filesystem below. mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -g 8192 -N 1024 -I 4096 /dev/sda So, it will end up triggering a false positive report of a corrupted file system. This patch fix it by avoid check reserved inodes if no free inode blocks will be zeroed. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 50122847007 ("ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes") Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331121516.2243099-1-yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -1367,6 +1367,7 @@ int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_b handle_t *handle; ext4_fsblk_t blk; int num, ret = 0, used_blks = 0; + unsigned long used_inos = 0; /* This should not happen, but just to be sure check this */ if (sb_rdonly(sb)) { @@ -1397,22 +1398,37 @@ int ext4_init_inode_table(struct super_b * used inodes so we need to skip blocks with used inodes in * inode table. */ - if (!(gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT))) - used_blks = DIV_ROUND_UP((EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) - - ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp)), - sbi->s_inodes_per_block); - - if ((used_blks < 0) || (used_blks > sbi->s_itb_per_group) || - ((group == 0) && ((EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) - - ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp)) < - EXT4_FIRST_INO(sb)))) { - ext4_error(sb, "Something is wrong with group %u: " - "used itable blocks: %d; " - "itable unused count: %u", - group, used_blks, - ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp)); - ret = 1; - goto err_out; + if (!(gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT))) { + used_inos = EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) - + ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp); + used_blks = DIV_ROUND_UP(used_inos, sbi->s_inodes_per_block); + + /* Bogus inode unused count? */ + if (used_blks < 0 || used_blks > sbi->s_itb_per_group) { + ext4_error(sb, "Something is wrong with group %u: " + "used itable blocks: %d; " + "itable unused count: %u", + group, used_blks, + ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp)); + ret = 1; + goto err_out; + } + + used_inos += group * EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb); + /* + * Are there some uninitialized inodes in the inode table + * before the first normal inode? + */ + if ((used_blks != sbi->s_itb_per_group) && + (used_inos < EXT4_FIRST_INO(sb))) { + ext4_error(sb, "Something is wrong with group %u: " + "itable unused count: %u; " + "itables initialized count: %ld", + group, ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp), + used_inos); + ret = 1; + goto err_out; + } } blk = ext4_inode_table(sb, gdp) + used_blks; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/ext4-fix-check-to-prevent-false-positive-report-of-incorrect-used-inodes.patch