This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems to the 3.9-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-online-resizing-for-ext3-compat-file-systems.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c5c72d814cf0f650010337c73638b25e6d14d2d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:19:43 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix online resizing for ext3-compat file systems From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit c5c72d814cf0f650010337c73638b25e6d14d2d4 upstream. Commit fb0a387dcdc restricts block allocations for indirect-mapped files to block groups less than s_blockfile_groups. However, the online resizing code wasn't setting s_blockfile_groups, so the newly added block groups were not available for non-extent mapped files. Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/resize.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -1341,6 +1341,8 @@ static void ext4_update_super(struct sup /* Update the global fs size fields */ sbi->s_groups_count += flex_gd->count; + sbi->s_blockfile_groups = min_t(ext4_group_t, sbi->s_groups_count, + (EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_FILE_PHYS / EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb))); /* Update the reserved block counts only once the new group is * active. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-3.9/ext4-fix-journal-callback-list-traversal.patch queue-3.9/ext4-fix-kconfig-documentation-for-config_ext4_debug.patch queue-3.9/ext4-fix-online-resizing-for-ext3-compat-file-systems.patch queue-3.9/ext4-fix-big-endian-bug-in-metadata-checksum-calculations.patch queue-3.9/ext4-unregister-es_shrinker-if-mount-failed.patch queue-3.9/jbd2-fix-race-between-jbd2_journal_remove_checkpoint-and-j_commit_callback.patch queue-3.9/ext4-jbd2-don-t-wait-forever-for-stale-tid-caused-by-wraparound.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html