1. 24 Sep, 2015 1 commit
    • Eric Whitney's avatar
      ext4: fix loss of delalloc extent info in ext4_zero_range() · 68e8fb56
      Eric Whitney authored
      commit 94426f4b upstream.
      
      In ext4_zero_range(), removing a file's entire block range from the
      extent status tree removes all records of that file's delalloc extents.
      The delalloc accounting code uses this information, and its loss can
      then lead to accounting errors and kernel warnings at writeback time and
      subsequent file system damage.  This is most noticeable on bigalloc
      file systems where code in ext4_ext_map_blocks() handles cases where
      delalloc extents share clusters with a newly allocated extent.
      
      Because we're not deleting a block range and are correctly updating the
      status of its associated extent, there is no need to remove anything
      from the extent status tree.
      
      When this patch is combined with an unrelated bug fix for
      ext4_zero_range(), kernel warnings and e2fsck errors reported during
      xfstests runs on bigalloc filesystems are greatly reduced without
      introducing regressions on other xfstests-bld test scenarios.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
      68e8fb56
  2. 22 Sep, 2015 39 commits