This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix delayed allocation bug in ext4_clu_mapped for bigalloc + inline to the 6.1-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-delayed-allocation-bug-in-ext4_clu_mapped-for-bigalloc-inline.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 131294c35ed6f777bd4e79d42af13b5c41bf2775 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:22:07 -0500 Subject: ext4: fix delayed allocation bug in ext4_clu_mapped for bigalloc + inline From: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> commit 131294c35ed6f777bd4e79d42af13b5c41bf2775 upstream. When converting files with inline data to extents, delayed allocations made on a file system created with both the bigalloc and inline options can result in invalid extent status cache content, incorrect reserved cluster counts, kernel memory leaks, and potential kernel panics. With bigalloc, the code that determines whether a block must be delayed allocated searches the extent tree to see if that block maps to a previously allocated cluster. If not, the block is delayed allocated, and otherwise, it isn't. However, if the inline option is also used, and if the file containing the block is marked as able to store data inline, there isn't a valid extent tree associated with the file. The current code in ext4_clu_mapped() calls ext4_find_extent() to search the non-existent tree for a previously allocated cluster anyway, which typically finds nothing, as desired. However, a side effect of the search can be to cache invalid content from the non-existent tree (garbage) in the extent status tree, including bogus entries in the pending reservation tree. To fix this, avoid searching the extent tree when allocating blocks for bigalloc + inline files that are being converted from inline to extent mapped. Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117152207.2424-1-enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -5799,6 +5799,14 @@ int ext4_clu_mapped(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_extent *extent; ext4_lblk_t first_lblk, first_lclu, last_lclu; + /* + * if data can be stored inline, the logical cluster isn't + * mapped - no physical clusters have been allocated, and the + * file has no extents + */ + if (ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA)) + return 0; + /* search for the extent closest to the first block in the cluster */ path = ext4_find_extent(inode, EXT4_C2B(sbi, lclu), NULL, 0); if (IS_ERR(path)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/ext4-fix-reserved-cluster-accounting-in-__es_remove_extent.patch queue-6.1/ext4-fix-delayed-allocation-bug-in-ext4_clu_mapped-for-bigalloc-inline.patch