This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: try all groups in ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple to the 5.10-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-try-all-groups-in-ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 53165f2420608cf426fac7b85f610295e9d165f2 Author: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Jun 3 23:03:15 2023 +0800 ext4: try all groups in ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple [ Upstream commit 19a043bb1fd1b5cb2652ca33536c55e6c0a70df0 ] ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple ignores the group before goal, so it will fail if free blocks reside in group before goal. Try all groups to avoid unexpected failure. Search finishes either if any free block is found or if no available blocks are found. Simpliy check "i >= max" to distinguish the above cases. Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230603150327.3596033-8-shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: 3f4830abd236 ("ext4: fix potential unnitialized variable") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index f54f23afd93d2..de69929495a5a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -5350,7 +5350,7 @@ static ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bitmap_bh; struct super_block *sb = ar->inode->i_sb; struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb); - ext4_group_t group; + ext4_group_t group, nr; ext4_grpblk_t blkoff; ext4_grpblk_t max = EXT4_CLUSTERS_PER_GROUP(sb); ext4_grpblk_t i = 0; @@ -5364,7 +5364,7 @@ static ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple(handle_t *handle, ar->len = 0; ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(sb, goal, &group, &blkoff); - for (; group < ext4_get_groups_count(sb); group++) { + for (nr = ext4_get_groups_count(sb); nr > 0; nr--) { bitmap_bh = ext4_read_block_bitmap(sb, group); if (IS_ERR(bitmap_bh)) { *errp = PTR_ERR(bitmap_bh); @@ -5388,10 +5388,13 @@ static ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple(handle_t *handle, if (i < max) break; + if (++group >= ext4_get_groups_count(sb)) + group = 0; + blkoff = 0; } - if (group >= ext4_get_groups_count(sb) || i >= max) { + if (i >= max) { *errp = -ENOSPC; return 0; }