Commit ee7122ad authored by Lachlan McIlroy's avatar Lachlan McIlroy Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files

commit e6155736 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: default avatarLachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 23b929f9
......@@ -1994,7 +1994,11 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
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 */
......
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