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    ext4: fix ext4_discard_allocated_blocks() if we can't allocate the pa struct · 86f0afd4
    Theodore Ts'o authored
    If there is a failure while allocating the preallocation structure, a
    number of blocks can end up getting marked in the in-memory buddy
    bitmap, and then not getting released.  This can result in the
    following corruption getting reported by the kernel:
    
    EXT4-fs error (device sda3): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:758: group 1126,
    12793 clusters in bitmap, 12729 in gd
    
    In that case, we need to release the blocks using mb_free_blocks().
    
    Tested: fs smoke test; also demonstrated that with injected errors,
    	the file system is no longer getting corrupted
    
    Google-Bug-Id: 16657874
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    86f0afd4
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