This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix incorect journal credits reservation in ext4_zero_range to the 3.16-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-incorect-journal-credits-reservation-in-ext4_zero_range.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 69dc9536405213c1d545fcace1fc15c481d00aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:33:49 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix incorect journal credits reservation in ext4_zero_range From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 69dc9536405213c1d545fcace1fc15c481d00aae upstream. Currently we reserve only 4 blocks but in worst case scenario ext4_zero_partial_blocks() may want to zeroout and convert two non adjacent blocks. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4730,6 +4730,7 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file loff_t new_size = 0; int ret = 0; int flags; + int credits; int partial; loff_t start, end; ext4_lblk_t lblk; @@ -4829,8 +4830,14 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file if (ret) goto out_dio; } - - handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MISC, 4); + /* + * In worst case we have to writeout two nonadjacent unwritten + * blocks and update the inode + */ + credits = (2 * ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks(inode, 2)) + 1; + if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) + credits += 2; + handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MISC, credits); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { ret = PTR_ERR(handle); ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, ret); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.16/ext4-move-i_size-i_disksize-update-routines-to-helper-function.patch queue-3.16/ext4-update-i_disksize-coherently-with-block-allocation-on-error-path.patch queue-3.16/ext4-fix-transaction-issues-for-ext4_fallocate-and-ext_zero_range.patch queue-3.16/ext4-fix-incorect-journal-credits-reservation-in-ext4_zero_range.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