4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9651e6b2e20648d04d5e1fe6479a3056047e8781 ] I've got another report about breaking ext4 by ENOMEM error returned from ext4_mb_load_buddy() caused by memory shortage in memory cgroup. This time inside ext4_discard_preallocations(). This patch replaces ext4_error() with ext4_warning() where errors returned from ext4_mb_load_buddy() are not fatal and handled by caller: * ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations() - called before generating ENOSPC, we'll try to discard other group or return ENOSPC into user-space. * ext4_trim_all_free() - just stop trimming and return ENOMEM from ioctl. Some callers cannot handle errors, thus __GFP_NOFAIL is used for them: * ext4_discard_preallocations() * ext4_mb_discard_lg_preallocations() Fixes: adb7ef600cc9 ("ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL in ext4_free_blocks()") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -3877,7 +3877,8 @@ ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations(str err = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, group, &e4b); if (err) { - ext4_error(sb, "Error loading buddy information for %u", group); + ext4_warning(sb, "Error %d loading buddy information for %u", + err, group); put_bh(bitmap_bh); return 0; } @@ -4034,10 +4035,11 @@ repeat: BUG_ON(pa->pa_type != MB_INODE_PA); group = ext4_get_group_number(sb, pa->pa_pstart); - err = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, group, &e4b); + err = ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp(sb, group, &e4b, + GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL); if (err) { - ext4_error(sb, "Error loading buddy information for %u", - group); + ext4_error(sb, "Error %d loading buddy information for %u", + err, group); continue; } @@ -4293,11 +4295,14 @@ ext4_mb_discard_lg_preallocations(struct spin_unlock(&lg->lg_prealloc_lock); list_for_each_entry_safe(pa, tmp, &discard_list, u.pa_tmp_list) { + int err; group = ext4_get_group_number(sb, pa->pa_pstart); - if (ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, group, &e4b)) { - ext4_error(sb, "Error loading buddy information for %u", - group); + err = ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp(sb, group, &e4b, + GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL); + if (err) { + ext4_error(sb, "Error %d loading buddy information for %u", + err, group); continue; } ext4_lock_group(sb, group); @@ -5117,8 +5122,8 @@ ext4_trim_all_free(struct super_block *s ret = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, group, &e4b); if (ret) { - ext4_error(sb, "Error in loading buddy " - "information for %u", group); + ext4_warning(sb, "Error %d loading buddy information for %u", + ret, group); return ret; } bitmap = e4b.bd_bitmap;