This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfs: Don't wrap growfs AGFL indexes to the 4.6-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: xfs-don-t-wrap-growfs-agfl-indexes.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ad747e3b299671e1a53db74963cc6c5f6cdb9f6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 07:06:20 +1000 Subject: xfs: Don't wrap growfs AGFL indexes From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> commit ad747e3b299671e1a53db74963cc6c5f6cdb9f6d upstream. Commit 96f859d ("libxfs: pack the agfl header structure so XFS_AGFL_SIZE is correct") allowed the freelist to use the empty slot at the end of the freelist on 64 bit systems that was not being used due to sizeof() rounding up the structure size. This has caused versions of xfs_repair prior to 4.5.0 (which also has the fix) to report this as a corruption once the filesystem has been grown. Older kernels can also have problems (seen from a whacky container/vm management environment) mounting filesystems grown on a system with a newer kernel than the vm/container it is deployed on. To avoid this problem, change the initial free list indexes not to wrap across the end of the AGFL, hence avoiding the initialisation of agf_fllast to the last index in the AGFL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c @@ -243,8 +243,8 @@ xfs_growfs_data_private( agf->agf_roots[XFS_BTNUM_CNTi] = cpu_to_be32(XFS_CNT_BLOCK(mp)); agf->agf_levels[XFS_BTNUM_BNOi] = cpu_to_be32(1); agf->agf_levels[XFS_BTNUM_CNTi] = cpu_to_be32(1); - agf->agf_flfirst = 0; - agf->agf_fllast = cpu_to_be32(XFS_AGFL_SIZE(mp) - 1); + agf->agf_flfirst = cpu_to_be32(1); + agf->agf_fllast = 0; agf->agf_flcount = 0; tmpsize = agsize - XFS_PREALLOC_BLOCKS(mp); agf->agf_freeblks = cpu_to_be32(tmpsize); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.6/xfs-xfs_iflush_cluster-fails-to-abort-on-error.patch queue-4.6/xfs-disallow-rw-remount-on-fs-with-unknown-ro-compat-features.patch queue-4.6/xfs-fix-inode-validity-check-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch queue-4.6/xfs-skip-stale-inodes-in-xfs_iflush_cluster.patch queue-4.6/xfs-remove-xfs_fs_evict_inode.patch queue-4.6/xfs-don-t-wrap-growfs-agfl-indexes.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