This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: correct best extent lstart adjustment logic to the 6.6-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-correct-best-extent-lstart-adjustment-logic.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 92e6713edf91617463c842d12ddf73e0fea38b7b Author: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 1 22:18:45 2024 +0800 ext4: correct best extent lstart adjustment logic [ Upstream commit 4fbf8bc733d14bceb16dda46a3f5e19c6a9621c5 ] When yangerkun review commit 93cdf49f6eca ("ext4: Fix best extent lstart adjustment logic in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa()"), it was found that the best extent did not completely cover the original request after adjusting the best extent lstart in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() as follows: original request: 2/10(8) normalized request: 0/64(64) best extent: 0/9(9) When we check if best ex can be kept at start of goal, ac_o_ex.fe_logical is 2 less than the adjusted best extent logical end 9, so we think the adjustment is done. But obviously 0/9(9) doesn't cover 2/10(8), so we should determine here if the original request logical end is less than or equal to the adjusted best extent logical end. In addition, add a comment stating when adjusted best_ex will not cover the original request, and remove the duplicate assertion because adjusting lstart makes no change to b_ex.fe_len. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3630fa7f-b432-7afd-5f79-781bc3b2c5ea@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 93cdf49f6eca ("ext4: Fix best extent lstart adjustment logic in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa()") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240201141845.1879253-1-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 ea5ac2636632b..257b70c5ded45 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -5184,10 +5184,16 @@ ext4_mb_new_inode_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) .fe_len = ac->ac_orig_goal_len, }; loff_t orig_goal_end = extent_logical_end(sbi, &ex); + loff_t o_ex_end = extent_logical_end(sbi, &ac->ac_o_ex); - /* we can't allocate as much as normalizer wants. - * so, found space must get proper lstart - * to cover original request */ + /* + * We can't allocate as much as normalizer wants, so we try + * to get proper lstart to cover the original request, except + * when the goal doesn't cover the original request as below: + * + * orig_ex:2045/2055(10), isize:8417280 -> normalized:0/2048 + * best_ex:0/200(200) -> adjusted: 1848/2048(200) + */ BUG_ON(ac->ac_g_ex.fe_logical > ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical); BUG_ON(ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len < ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len); @@ -5199,7 +5205,7 @@ ext4_mb_new_inode_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) * 1. Check if best ex can be kept at end of goal (before * cr_best_avail trimmed it) and still cover original start * 2. Else, check if best ex can be kept at start of goal and - * still cover original start + * still cover original end * 3. Else, keep the best ex at start of original request. */ ex.fe_len = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len; @@ -5209,7 +5215,7 @@ ext4_mb_new_inode_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) goto adjust_bex; ex.fe_logical = ac->ac_g_ex.fe_logical; - if (ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical < extent_logical_end(sbi, &ex)) + if (o_ex_end <= extent_logical_end(sbi, &ex)) goto adjust_bex; ex.fe_logical = ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical; @@ -5217,7 +5223,6 @@ ext4_mb_new_inode_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) ac->ac_b_ex.fe_logical = ex.fe_logical; BUG_ON(ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical < ac->ac_b_ex.fe_logical); - BUG_ON(ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len > ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len); BUG_ON(extent_logical_end(sbi, &ex) > orig_goal_end); }