This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix error handling in ext4_ext_truncate()
to the 3.10-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-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_ext_truncate.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8acd5e9b1217e58a57124d9e225afa12efeae20d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 00:09:19 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix error handling in ext4_ext_truncate()
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
commit 8acd5e9b1217e58a57124d9e225afa12efeae20d upstream.
Previously ext4_ext_truncate() was ignoring potential error returns
from ext4_es_remove_extent() and ext4_ext_remove_space(). This can
lead to the on-diks extent tree and the extent status tree cache
getting out of sync, which is particuarlly bad, and can lead to file
system corruption and potential data loss.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4386,9 +4386,20 @@ void ext4_ext_truncate(handle_t *handle,
last_block = (inode->i_size + sb->s_blocksize - 1)
>> EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE_BITS(sb);
+retry:
err = ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, last_block,
EXT_MAX_BLOCKS - last_block);
+ if (err == ENOMEM) {
+ cond_resched();
+ congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
+ goto retry;
+ }
+ if (err) {
+ ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, err);
+ return;
+ }
err = ext4_ext_remove_space(inode, last_block, EXT_MAX_BLOCKS - 1);
+ ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, err);
}
static void ext4_falloc_update_inode(struct inode *inode,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/ext4-fix-error-handling-in-ext4_ext_truncate.patch
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