Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 3 authors, 2012-07-09

Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix hole punch failure when depth is greater than 0

From: Ashish Sangwan <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-05 09:52:07
Also in: lkml

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Lukáš Czerner [off-list ref] wrote:
So I've finally has some time to look at the patch and reproduce the
problem. Thanks for noticing the problem, the patch seems good,
though I have one question. Is the p_block setting really necessary
? I do not think so, but I might be missing something. Here is
updated patch I've tested, bellow.
AFAICS, p_block setting is necessary. As mentioned in the patch description,
whether to continue removing extents or not is decided by the return value
of function ext4_ext_more_to_rm() which checks 2 conditions:
a) if there are no more indexes to process.
b) if the number of entries are decreased in the header of "depth -1".
The p_block setting is important for condition b).

In function ext4_ext_more_to_rm, there is this second check:
if (le16_to_cpu(path->p_hdr->eh_entries) == path->p_block)
    return 0;
If the value of p_block would not be correct, the above mentioned
condition could become
true while there are still blocks left to be removed.
Note: there are some indent problems in your patch, like for example
this:

+                       path[k].p_block =
+                       le16_to_cpu(path[k].p_hdr->eh_entries)+1;
Before submitting the patch, I run checkpatch.pl with --strict option.
It did'nt show any error or warning. Should I re-submit
the patch with an extra tab before the second line? The call is yours.
Anyway, what do you think about the modification ?
Also there is 1 modification missing from your patch.
    ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
        kfree(path);
+       path = NULL;
        if (err == -EAGAIN)
                goto again;
If path is not set to NULL, it will crash in xfstest #13. Ted has
already reported it.

Thanks,
Ashish
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Thanks!
-Lukas

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index b3300eb..94bc1bd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2570,7 +2570,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_remove_space(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t start,
 {
        struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
        int depth = ext_depth(inode);
-       struct ext4_ext_path *path;
+       struct ext4_ext_path *path = NULL;
        ext4_fsblk_t partial_cluster = 0;
        handle_t *handle;
        int i, err;
@@ -2606,8 +2606,12 @@ again:
                }
                depth = ext_depth(inode);
                ex = path[depth].p_ext;
-               if (!ex)
+               if (!ex) {
+                       ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
+                       kfree(path);
+                       path = NULL;
                        goto cont;
+               }

                ee_block = le32_to_cpu(ex->ee_block);
@@ -2637,8 +2641,6 @@ again:
                        if (err < 0)
                                goto out;
                }
-               ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
-               kfree(path);
        }
 cont:
@@ -2646,20 +2648,26 @@ cont:
         * We start scanning from right side, freeing all the blocks
         * after i_size and walking into the tree depth-wise.
         */
-       depth = ext_depth(inode);
-       path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1), GFP_NOFS);
-       if (path == NULL) {
-               ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-               return -ENOMEM;
-       }
-       path[0].p_depth = depth;
-       path[0].p_hdr = ext_inode_hdr(inode);
+       if (path)
+               i = depth;
+       else {
+               depth = ext_depth(inode);
+               path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1),
+                              GFP_NOFS);
+               if (path == NULL) {
+                       ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+                       return -ENOMEM;
+               }
+               path[0].p_depth = depth;
+               path[0].p_hdr = ext_inode_hdr(inode);

-       if (ext4_ext_check(inode, path[0].p_hdr, depth)) {
-               err = -EIO;
-               goto out;
+               if (ext4_ext_check(inode, path[0].p_hdr, depth)) {
+                       err = -EIO;
+                       goto out;
+               }
+               i = 0;
        }
-       i = err = 0;
+       err = 0;

        while (i >= 0 && err == 0) {
                if (i == depth) {
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Ashish Sangwan wrote:
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