This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix corruption during on-line resize
to the 5.4-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-corruption-during-on-line-resize.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 04972897ee2f8e26842c6c00ac34332524176aff
Author: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Feb 15 15:50:09 2024 +0000
ext4: fix corruption during on-line resize
[ Upstream commit a6b3bfe176e8a5b05ec4447404e412c2a3fc92cc ]
We observed a corruption during on-line resize of a file system that is
larger than 16 TiB with 4k block size. With having more then 2^32 blocks
resize_inode is turned off by default by mke2fs. The issue can be
reproduced on a smaller file system for convenience by explicitly
turning off resize_inode. An on-line resize across an 8 GiB boundary (the
size of a meta block group in this setup) then leads to a corruption:
dev=/dev/<some_dev> # should be >= 16 GiB
mkdir -p /corruption
/sbin/mke2fs -t ext4 -b 4096 -O ^resize_inode $dev $((2 * 2**21 - 2**15))
mount -t ext4 $dev /corruption
dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 of=/corruption/test count=$((2*2**21 - 4*2**15))
sha1sum /corruption/test
# 79d2658b39dcfd77274e435b0934028adafaab11 /corruption/test
/sbin/resize2fs $dev $((2*2**21))
# drop page cache to force reload the block from disk
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
sha1sum /corruption/test
# 3c2abc63cbf1a94c9e6977e0fbd72cd832c4d5c3 /corruption/test
2^21 = 2^15*2^6 equals 8 GiB whereof 2^15 is the number of blocks per
block group and 2^6 are the number of block groups that make a meta
block group.
The last checksum might be different depending on how the file is laid
out across the physical blocks. The actual corruption occurs at physical
block 63*2^15 = 2064384 which would be the location of the backup of the
meta block group's block descriptor. During the on-line resize the file
system will be converted to meta_bg starting at s_first_meta_bg which is
2 in the example - meaning all block groups after 16 GiB. However, in
ext4_flex_group_add we might add block groups that are not part of the
first meta block group yet. In the reproducer we achieved this by
substracting the size of a whole block group from the point where the
meta block group would start. This must be considered when updating the
backup block group descriptors to follow the non-meta_bg layout. The fix
is to add a test whether the group to add is already part of the meta
block group or not.
Fixes: 01f795f9e0d67 ("ext4: add online resizing support for meta_bg and 64-bit file systems")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Srivathsa Dara <srivathsa.d.dara@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Srivathsa Dara <srivathsa.d.dara@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240215155009.94493-1-mheyne@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
index 409b4ad28e718..d4431ca0c10e3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
@@ -1567,7 +1567,8 @@ static int ext4_flex_group_add(struct super_block *sb,
int gdb_num = group / EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb);
int gdb_num_end = ((group + flex_gd->count - 1) /
EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb));
- int meta_bg = ext4_has_feature_meta_bg(sb);
+ int meta_bg = ext4_has_feature_meta_bg(sb) &&
+ gdb_num >= le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_meta_bg);
sector_t padding_blocks = meta_bg ? 0 : sbi->s_sbh->b_blocknr -
ext4_group_first_block_no(sb, 0);
sector_t old_gdb = 0;
