From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752716AbdIIXWS (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 19:22:18 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:43076 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753462AbdIIXCu (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Sep 2017 19:02:50 -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, "Konstantin Khlebnikov" , "Theodore Ts'o" Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 22:47:14 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 076/233] ext4: handle the rest of ext4_mb_load_buddy() ENOMEM errors In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 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 3.16.48-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Konstantin Khlebnikov commit 9651e6b2e20648d04d5e1fe6479a3056047e8781 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -3849,7 +3849,8 @@ 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; } @@ -4006,10 +4007,11 @@ 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; } @@ -4264,11 +4266,14 @@ 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); @@ -5107,8 +5112,8 @@ 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;