This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: using nofail preallocation in ext4_es_remove_extent() 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-using-nofail-preallocation-in-ext4_es_remove_ex.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. commit e0096ed05a4443956b2dc310b2d264b85f0c1fbf Author: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Apr 24 11:38:40 2023 +0800 ext4: using nofail preallocation in ext4_es_remove_extent() [ Upstream commit e9fe2b882bd5b26b987c9ba110c2222796f72af5 ] If __es_remove_extent() returns an error it means that when splitting extent, allocating an extent that must be kept failed, where returning an error directly would cause the extent tree to be inconsistent. So we use GFP_NOFAIL to pre-allocate an extent_status and pass it to __es_remove_extent() to avoid this problem. In addition, since the allocated memory is outside the i_es_lock, the extent_status tree may change and the pre-allocated extent_status is no longer needed, so we release the pre-allocated extent_status when es->es_len is not initialized. Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230424033846.4732-7-libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: 8e387c89e96b ("ext4: make sure allocate pending entry not fail") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents_status.c b/fs/ext4/extents_status.c index 682f5e4ce2d00..cb8241adda929 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents_status.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents_status.c @@ -1456,6 +1456,7 @@ int ext4_es_remove_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t lblk, ext4_lblk_t end; int err = 0; int reserved = 0; + struct extent_status *es = NULL; if (EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_mount_state & EXT4_FC_REPLAY) return 0; @@ -1470,17 +1471,25 @@ int ext4_es_remove_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t lblk, end = lblk + len - 1; BUG_ON(end < lblk); +retry: + if (err && !es) + es = __es_alloc_extent(true); /* * ext4_clear_inode() depends on us taking i_es_lock unconditionally * so that we are sure __es_shrink() is done with the inode before it * is reclaimed. */ write_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_es_lock); - err = __es_remove_extent(inode, lblk, end, &reserved, NULL); + err = __es_remove_extent(inode, lblk, end, &reserved, es); + if (es && !es->es_len) + __es_free_extent(es); write_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_es_lock); + if (err) + goto retry; + ext4_es_print_tree(inode); ext4_da_release_space(inode, reserved); - return err; + return 0; } static int __es_shrink(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, int nr_to_scan,