This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_find_by_goal() to the 6.7-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-avoid-allocating-blocks-from-corrupted-group-in.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6d929adba1672d180a93376410d3a67568ec1269 Author: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 4 22:20:39 2024 +0800 ext4: avoid allocating blocks from corrupted group in ext4_mb_find_by_goal() [ Upstream commit 832698373a25950942c04a512daa652c18a9b513 ] Places the logic for checking if the group's block bitmap is corrupt under the protection of the group lock to avoid allocating blocks from the group with a corrupted block bitmap. Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240104142040.2835097-8-libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 1bc615d621917..7497a789d002e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2342,12 +2342,10 @@ int ext4_mb_find_by_goal(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac, if (err) return err; - if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_BBITMAP_CORRUPT(e4b->bd_info))) { - ext4_mb_unload_buddy(e4b); - return 0; - } - ext4_lock_group(ac->ac_sb, group); + if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_BBITMAP_CORRUPT(e4b->bd_info))) + goto out; + max = mb_find_extent(e4b, ac->ac_g_ex.fe_start, ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len, &ex); ex.fe_logical = 0xDEADFA11; /* debug value */ @@ -2380,6 +2378,7 @@ int ext4_mb_find_by_goal(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac, ac->ac_b_ex = ex; ext4_mb_use_best_found(ac, e4b); } +out: ext4_unlock_group(ac->ac_sb, group); ext4_mb_unload_buddy(e4b);