This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfs: only update mount/resv fields on success in __xfs_ag_resv_init to the 4.9-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: xfs-only-update-mount-resv-fields-on-success-in-__xfs_ag_resv_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4dfa2b84118fd6c95202ae87e62adf5000ccd4d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:49:34 -0800 Subject: xfs: only update mount/resv fields on success in __xfs_ag_resv_init From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> commit 4dfa2b84118fd6c95202ae87e62adf5000ccd4d0 upstream. Try to reserve the blocks first and only then update the fields in or hanging off the mount structure. This way we can call __xfs_ag_resv_init again after a previous failure. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_ag_resv.c | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_ag_resv.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_ag_resv.c @@ -200,22 +200,27 @@ __xfs_ag_resv_init( struct xfs_mount *mp = pag->pag_mount; struct xfs_ag_resv *resv; int error; + xfs_extlen_t reserved; - resv = xfs_perag_resv(pag, type); if (used > ask) ask = used; - resv->ar_asked = ask; - resv->ar_reserved = resv->ar_orig_reserved = ask - used; - mp->m_ag_max_usable -= ask; + reserved = ask - used; - trace_xfs_ag_resv_init(pag, type, ask); - - error = xfs_mod_fdblocks(mp, -(int64_t)resv->ar_reserved, true); - if (error) + error = xfs_mod_fdblocks(mp, -(int64_t)reserved, true); + if (error) { trace_xfs_ag_resv_init_error(pag->pag_mount, pag->pag_agno, error, _RET_IP_); + return error; + } - return error; + mp->m_ag_max_usable -= ask; + + resv = xfs_perag_resv(pag, type); + resv->ar_asked = ask; + resv->ar_reserved = resv->ar_orig_reserved = reserved; + + trace_xfs_ag_resv_init(pag, type, ask); + return 0; } /* Create a per-AG block reservation. */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are queue-4.9/xfs-sync-eofblocks-scans-under-iolock-are-livelock-prone.patch queue-4.9/xfs-use-per-ag-reservations-for-the-finobt.patch queue-4.9/xfs-pull-up-iolock-from-xfs_free_eofblocks.patch queue-4.9/xfs-only-update-mount-resv-fields-on-success-in-__xfs_ag_resv_init.patch