From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759252Ab3E1D4L (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 23:56:11 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:52623 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758881Ab3E1DyW (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 23:54:22 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Lachlan McIlroy" , "Theodore Ts'o" , "Eric Sandeen" Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 04:49:53 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [11/94] ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.101 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.46-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lachlan McIlroy commit e6155736ad76b2070652745f9e54cdea3f0d8567 upstream. In the case where we are allocating for a non-extent file, we must limit the groups we allocate from to those below 2^32 blocks, and ext4_mb_regular_allocator() attempts to do this initially by putting a cap on ngroups for the subsequent search loop. However, the initial target group comes in from the allocation context (ac), and it may already be beyond the artificially limited ngroups. In this case, the limit if (group == ngroups) group = 0; at the top of the loop is never true, and the loop will run away. Catch this case inside the loop and reset the search to start at group 0. [sandeen@redhat.com: add commit msg & comments] Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2027,7 +2027,11 @@ repeat: group = ac->ac_g_ex.fe_group; for (i = 0; i < ngroups; group++, i++) { - if (group == ngroups) + /* + * Artificially restricted ngroups for non-extent + * files makes group > ngroups possible on first loop. + */ + if (group >= ngroups) group = 0; /* This now checks without needing the buddy page */