This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix reservation overflow in ext4_da_write_begin 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-reservation-overflow-in-ext4_da_write_begin.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 0ff8947fc5f700172b37cbca811a38eb9cb81e08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:51:17 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix reservation overflow in ext4_da_write_begin From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0ff8947fc5f700172b37cbca811a38eb9cb81e08 upstream. Delalloc write journal reservations only reserve 1 credit, to update the inode if necessary. However, it may happen once in a filesystem's lifetime that a file will cross the 2G threshold, and require the LARGE_FILE feature to be set in the superblock as well, if it was not set already. This overruns the transaction reservation, and can be demonstrated simply on any ext4 filesystem without the LARGE_FILE feature already set: dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1 seek=2147483646 count=1 \ conv=notrunc of=testfile sync dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1 seek=2147483647 count=1 \ conv=notrunc of=testfile leads to: EXT4-fs: ext4_do_update_inode:4296: aborting transaction: error 28 in __ext4_handle_dirty_super EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_do_update_inode:4301: error 28 EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4757: Readonly filesystem EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_dirty_inode:4876: error 28 EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_da_write_end:2685: error 28 Adjust the number of credits based on whether the flag is already set, and whether the current write may extend past the LARGE_FILE limit. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -2647,6 +2647,20 @@ static int ext4_nonda_switch(struct supe return 0; } +/* We always reserve for an inode update; the superblock could be there too */ +static int ext4_da_write_credits(struct inode *inode, loff_t pos, unsigned len) +{ + if (likely(EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(inode->i_sb, + EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE))) + return 1; + + if (pos + len <= 0x7fffffffULL) + return 1; + + /* We might need to update the superblock to set LARGE_FILE */ + return 2; +} + static int ext4_da_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags, struct page **pagep, void **fsdata) @@ -2697,7 +2711,8 @@ retry_grab: * of file which has an already mapped buffer. */ retry_journal: - handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE, 1); + handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_WRITE_PAGE, + ext4_da_write_credits(inode, pos, len)); if (IS_ERR(handle)) { page_cache_release(page); return PTR_ERR(handle); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/ext4-fix-reservation-overflow-in-ext4_da_write_begin.patch queue-3.10/jbd2-free-bh-when-descriptor-block-checksum-fails.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