The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From f3038ee3a3f1017a1cbe9907e31fa12d366c5dcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:29:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: Handle btrfs_set_extent_delalloc failure in fixup worker This function was introduced by 247e743cbe6e ("Btrfs: Use async helpers to deal with pages that have been improperly dirtied") and it didn't do any error handling then. This function might very well fail in ENOMEM situation, yet it's not handled, this could lead to inconsistent state. So let's handle the failure by setting the mapping error bit. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c index 034d7333b14d..9ad8c9321c8f 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -2116,8 +2116,15 @@ static void btrfs_writepage_fixup_worker(struct btrfs_work *work) goto out; } - btrfs_set_extent_delalloc(inode, page_start, page_end, 0, &cached_state, - 0); + ret = btrfs_set_extent_delalloc(inode, page_start, page_end, 0, + &cached_state, 0); + if (ret) { + mapping_set_error(page->mapping, ret); + end_extent_writepage(page, ret, page_start, page_end); + ClearPageChecked(page); + goto out; + } + ClearPageChecked(page); set_page_dirty(page); btrfs_delalloc_release_extents(BTRFS_I(inode), PAGE_SIZE);