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<title>ext4: fix bug on in ext4_es_cache_extent as ext4_split_extent_at failed</title>
<updated>2021-06-10T11:37:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ye Bin</name>
<email>yebin10@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2021-05-06T14:10:42+00:00</published>
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commit 082cd4ec240b8734a82a89ffb890216ac98fec68 upstream.

We got follow bug_on when run fsstress with injecting IO fault:
[130747.323114] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents_status.c:762!
[130747.323117] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
......
[130747.334329] Call trace:
[130747.334553]  ext4_es_cache_extent+0x150/0x168 [ext4]
[130747.334975]  ext4_cache_extents+0x64/0xe8 [ext4]
[130747.335368]  ext4_find_extent+0x300/0x330 [ext4]
[130747.335759]  ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x74/0x1178 [ext4]
[130747.336179]  ext4_map_blocks+0x2f4/0x5f0 [ext4]
[130747.336567]  ext4_mpage_readpages+0x4a8/0x7a8 [ext4]
[130747.336995]  ext4_readpage+0x54/0x100 [ext4]
[130747.337359]  generic_file_buffered_read+0x410/0xae8
[130747.337767]  generic_file_read_iter+0x114/0x190
[130747.338152]  ext4_file_read_iter+0x5c/0x140 [ext4]
[130747.338556]  __vfs_read+0x11c/0x188
[130747.338851]  vfs_read+0x94/0x150
[130747.339110]  ksys_read+0x74/0xf0

This patch's modification is according to Jan Kara's suggestion in:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/patch/20210428085158.3728201-1-yebin10@huawei.com/
"I see. Now I understand your patch. Honestly, seeing how fragile is trying
to fix extent tree after split has failed in the middle, I would probably
go even further and make sure we fix the tree properly in case of ENOSPC
and EDQUOT (those are easily user triggerable).  Anything else indicates a
HW problem or fs corruption so I'd rather leave the extent tree as is and
don't try to fix it (which also means we will not create overlapping
extents)."

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506141042.3298679-1-yebin10@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 082cd4ec240b8734a82a89ffb890216ac98fec68 upstream.

We got follow bug_on when run fsstress with injecting IO fault:
[130747.323114] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/extents_status.c:762!
[130747.323117] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
......
[130747.334329] Call trace:
[130747.334553]  ext4_es_cache_extent+0x150/0x168 [ext4]
[130747.334975]  ext4_cache_extents+0x64/0xe8 [ext4]
[130747.335368]  ext4_find_extent+0x300/0x330 [ext4]
[130747.335759]  ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x74/0x1178 [ext4]
[130747.336179]  ext4_map_blocks+0x2f4/0x5f0 [ext4]
[130747.336567]  ext4_mpage_readpages+0x4a8/0x7a8 [ext4]
[130747.336995]  ext4_readpage+0x54/0x100 [ext4]
[130747.337359]  generic_file_buffered_read+0x410/0xae8
[130747.337767]  generic_file_read_iter+0x114/0x190
[130747.338152]  ext4_file_read_iter+0x5c/0x140 [ext4]
[130747.338556]  __vfs_read+0x11c/0x188
[130747.338851]  vfs_read+0x94/0x150
[130747.339110]  ksys_read+0x74/0xf0

This patch's modification is according to Jan Kara's suggestion in:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/patch/20210428085158.3728201-1-yebin10@huawei.com/
"I see. Now I understand your patch. Honestly, seeing how fragile is trying
to fix extent tree after split has failed in the middle, I would probably
go even further and make sure we fix the tree properly in case of ENOSPC
and EDQUOT (those are easily user triggerable).  Anything else indicates a
HW problem or fs corruption so I'd rather leave the extent tree as is and
don't try to fix it (which also means we will not create overlapping
extents)."

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506141042.3298679-1-yebin10@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix error handling in ext4_end_enable_verity()</title>
<updated>2021-05-26T10:05:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-03-02T20:04:19+00:00</published>
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commit f053cf7aa66cd9d592b0fc967f4d887c2abff1b7 upstream.

ext4 didn't properly clean up if verity failed to be enabled on a file:

- It left verity metadata (pages past EOF) in the page cache, which
  would be exposed to userspace if the file was later extended.

- It didn't truncate the verity metadata at all (either from cache or
  from disk) if an error occurred while setting the verity bit.

Fix these bugs by adding a call to truncate_inode_pages() and ensuring
that we truncate the verity metadata (both from cache and from disk) in
all error paths.  Also rework the code to cleanly separate the success
path from the error paths, which makes it much easier to understand.

Reported-by: Yunlei He &lt;heyunlei@hihonor.com&gt;
Fixes: c93d8f885809 ("ext4: add basic fs-verity support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302200420.137977-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f053cf7aa66cd9d592b0fc967f4d887c2abff1b7 upstream.

ext4 didn't properly clean up if verity failed to be enabled on a file:

- It left verity metadata (pages past EOF) in the page cache, which
  would be exposed to userspace if the file was later extended.

- It didn't truncate the verity metadata at all (either from cache or
  from disk) if an error occurred while setting the verity bit.

Fix these bugs by adding a call to truncate_inode_pages() and ensuring
that we truncate the verity metadata (both from cache and from disk) in
all error paths.  Also rework the code to cleanly separate the success
path from the error paths, which makes it much easier to understand.

Reported-by: Yunlei He &lt;heyunlei@hihonor.com&gt;
Fixes: c93d8f885809 ("ext4: add basic fs-verity support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302200420.137977-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix error code in ext4_commit_super</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T12:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fengnan Chang</name>
<email>changfengnan@vivo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-02T10:16:31+00:00</published>
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commit f88f1466e2a2e5ca17dfada436d3efa1b03a3972 upstream.

We should set the error code when ext4_commit_super check argument failed.
Found in code review.
Fixes: c4be0c1dc4cdc ("filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfs").

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fengnan Chang &lt;changfengnan@vivo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210402101631.561-1-changfengnan@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f88f1466e2a2e5ca17dfada436d3efa1b03a3972 upstream.

We should set the error code when ext4_commit_super check argument failed.
Found in code review.
Fixes: c4be0c1dc4cdc ("filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfs").

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fengnan Chang &lt;changfengnan@vivo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210402101631.561-1-changfengnan@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: do not set SB_ACTIVE in ext4_orphan_cleanup()</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T12:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yi</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-31T03:31:38+00:00</published>
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commit 72ffb49a7b623c92a37657eda7cc46a06d3e8398 upstream.

When CONFIG_QUOTA is enabled, if we failed to mount the filesystem due
to some error happens behind ext4_orphan_cleanup(), it will end up
triggering a after free issue of super_block. The problem is that
ext4_orphan_cleanup() will set SB_ACTIVE flag if CONFIG_QUOTA is
enabled, after we cleanup the truncated inodes, the last iput() will put
them into the lru list, and these inodes' pages may probably dirty and
will be write back by the writeback thread, so it could be raced by
freeing super_block in the error path of mount_bdev().

After check the setting of SB_ACTIVE flag in ext4_orphan_cleanup(), it
was used to ensure updating the quota file properly, but evict inode and
trash data immediately in the last iput does not affect the quotafile,
so setting the SB_ACTIVE flag seems not required[1]. Fix this issue by
just remove the SB_ACTIVE setting.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/99cce8ca-e4a0-7301-840f-2ace67c551f3@huawei.com/T/#m04990cfbc4f44592421736b504afcc346b2a7c00

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331033138.918975-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 72ffb49a7b623c92a37657eda7cc46a06d3e8398 upstream.

When CONFIG_QUOTA is enabled, if we failed to mount the filesystem due
to some error happens behind ext4_orphan_cleanup(), it will end up
triggering a after free issue of super_block. The problem is that
ext4_orphan_cleanup() will set SB_ACTIVE flag if CONFIG_QUOTA is
enabled, after we cleanup the truncated inodes, the last iput() will put
them into the lru list, and these inodes' pages may probably dirty and
will be write back by the writeback thread, so it could be raced by
freeing super_block in the error path of mount_bdev().

After check the setting of SB_ACTIVE flag in ext4_orphan_cleanup(), it
was used to ensure updating the quota file properly, but evict inode and
trash data immediately in the last iput does not affect the quotafile,
so setting the SB_ACTIVE flag seems not required[1]. Fix this issue by
just remove the SB_ACTIVE setting.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/99cce8ca-e4a0-7301-840f-2ace67c551f3@huawei.com/T/#m04990cfbc4f44592421736b504afcc346b2a7c00

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331033138.918975-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix check to prevent false positive report of incorrect used inodes</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T12:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yi</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-31T12:15:16+00:00</published>
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commit a149d2a5cabbf6507a7832a1c4fd2593c55fd450 upstream.

Commit &lt;50122847007&gt; ("ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved
inodes") check the block group zero and prevent initializing reserved
inodes. But in some special cases, the reserved inode may not all belong
to the group zero, it may exist into the second group if we format
filesystem below.

  mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -g 8192 -N 1024 -I 4096 /dev/sda

So, it will end up triggering a false positive report of a corrupted
file system. This patch fix it by avoid check reserved inodes if no free
inode blocks will be zeroed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 50122847007 ("ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331121516.2243099-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a149d2a5cabbf6507a7832a1c4fd2593c55fd450 upstream.

Commit &lt;50122847007&gt; ("ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved
inodes") check the block group zero and prevent initializing reserved
inodes. But in some special cases, the reserved inode may not all belong
to the group zero, it may exist into the second group if we format
filesystem below.

  mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -g 8192 -N 1024 -I 4096 /dev/sda

So, it will end up triggering a false positive report of a corrupted
file system. This patch fix it by avoid check reserved inodes if no free
inode blocks will be zeroed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 50122847007 ("ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331121516.2243099-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: do not iput inode under running transaction in ext4_rename()</title>
<updated>2021-04-07T12:47:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhangyi (F)</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-03T13:17:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5dccdc5a1916d4266edd251f20bbbb113a5c495f ]

In ext4_rename(), when RENAME_WHITEOUT failed to add new entry into
directory, it ends up dropping new created whiteout inode under the
running transaction. After commit &lt;9b88f9fb0d2&gt; ("ext4: Do not iput inode
under running transaction"), we follow the assumptions that evict() does
not get called from a transaction context but in ext4_rename() it breaks
this suggestion. Although it's not a real problem, better to obey it, so
this patch add inode to orphan list and stop transaction before final
iput().

Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303131703.330415-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5dccdc5a1916d4266edd251f20bbbb113a5c495f ]

In ext4_rename(), when RENAME_WHITEOUT failed to add new entry into
directory, it ends up dropping new created whiteout inode under the
running transaction. After commit &lt;9b88f9fb0d2&gt; ("ext4: Do not iput inode
under running transaction"), we follow the assumptions that evict() does
not get called from a transaction context but in ext4_rename() it breaks
this suggestion. Although it's not a real problem, better to obey it, so
this patch add inode to orphan list and stop transaction before final
iput().

Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303131703.330415-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix bh ref count on error paths</title>
<updated>2021-04-07T12:47:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhaolong Zhang</name>
<email>zhangzl2013@126.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-02T09:42:31+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c915fb80eaa6194fa9bd0a4487705cd5b0dda2f1 ]

__ext4_journalled_writepage should drop bhs' ref count on error paths

Signed-off-by: Zhaolong Zhang &lt;zhangzl2013@126.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1614678151-70481-1-git-send-email-zhangzl2013@126.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c915fb80eaa6194fa9bd0a4487705cd5b0dda2f1 ]

__ext4_journalled_writepage should drop bhs' ref count on error paths

Signed-off-by: Zhaolong Zhang &lt;zhangzl2013@126.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1614678151-70481-1-git-send-email-zhangzl2013@126.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: shrink race window in ext4_should_retry_alloc()</title>
<updated>2021-04-07T12:47:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Whitney</name>
<email>enwlinux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-18T15:11:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit efc61345274d6c7a46a0570efbc916fcbe3e927b ]

When generic/371 is run on kvm-xfstests using 5.10 and 5.11 kernels, it
fails at significant rates on the two test scenarios that disable
delayed allocation (ext3conv and data_journal) and force actual block
allocation for the fallocate and pwrite functions in the test.  The
failure rate on 5.10 for both ext3conv and data_journal on one test
system typically runs about 85%.  On 5.11, the failure rate on ext3conv
sometimes drops to as low as 1% while the rate on data_journal
increases to nearly 100%.

The observed failures are largely due to ext4_should_retry_alloc()
cutting off block allocation retries when s_mb_free_pending (used to
indicate that a transaction in progress will free blocks) is 0.
However, free space is usually available when this occurs during runs
of generic/371.  It appears that a thread attempting to allocate
blocks is just missing transaction commits in other threads that
increase the free cluster count and reset s_mb_free_pending while
the allocating thread isn't running.  Explicitly testing for free space
availability avoids this race.

The current code uses a post-increment operator in the conditional
expression that determines whether the retry limit has been exceeded.
This means that the conditional expression uses the value of the
retry counter before it's increased, resulting in an extra retry cycle.
The current code actually retries twice before hitting its retry limit
rather than once.

Increasing the retry limit to 3 from the current actual maximum retry
count of 2 in combination with the change described above reduces the
observed failure rate to less that 0.1% on both ext3conv and
data_journal with what should be limited impact on users sensitive to
the overhead caused by retries.

A per filesystem percpu counter exported via sysfs is added to allow
users or developers to track the number of times the retry limit is
exceeded without resorting to debugging methods.  This should provide
some insight into worst case retry behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218151132.19678-1-enwlinux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit efc61345274d6c7a46a0570efbc916fcbe3e927b ]

When generic/371 is run on kvm-xfstests using 5.10 and 5.11 kernels, it
fails at significant rates on the two test scenarios that disable
delayed allocation (ext3conv and data_journal) and force actual block
allocation for the fallocate and pwrite functions in the test.  The
failure rate on 5.10 for both ext3conv and data_journal on one test
system typically runs about 85%.  On 5.11, the failure rate on ext3conv
sometimes drops to as low as 1% while the rate on data_journal
increases to nearly 100%.

The observed failures are largely due to ext4_should_retry_alloc()
cutting off block allocation retries when s_mb_free_pending (used to
indicate that a transaction in progress will free blocks) is 0.
However, free space is usually available when this occurs during runs
of generic/371.  It appears that a thread attempting to allocate
blocks is just missing transaction commits in other threads that
increase the free cluster count and reset s_mb_free_pending while
the allocating thread isn't running.  Explicitly testing for free space
availability avoids this race.

The current code uses a post-increment operator in the conditional
expression that determines whether the retry limit has been exceeded.
This means that the conditional expression uses the value of the
retry counter before it's increased, resulting in an extra retry cycle.
The current code actually retries twice before hitting its retry limit
rather than once.

Increasing the retry limit to 3 from the current actual maximum retry
count of 2 in combination with the change described above reduces the
observed failure rate to less that 0.1% on both ext3conv and
data_journal with what should be limited impact on users sensitive to
the overhead caused by retries.

A per filesystem percpu counter exported via sysfs is added to allow
users or developers to track the number of times the retry limit is
exceeded without resorting to debugging methods.  This should provide
some insight into worst case retry behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218151132.19678-1-enwlinux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: add reclaim checks to xattr code</title>
<updated>2021-03-30T12:35:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-22T17:16:26+00:00</published>
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commit 163f0ec1df33cf468509ff38cbcbb5eb0d7fac60 upstream.

Syzbot is reporting that ext4 can enter fs reclaim from kvmalloc() while
the transaction is started like:

  fs_reclaim_acquire+0x117/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:4340
  might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:193 [inline]
  slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:493 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2817 [inline]
  __kmalloc_node+0x5f/0x430 mm/slub.c:4015
  kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:575 [inline]
  kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0 mm/util.c:587
  kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:781 [inline]
  ext4_xattr_inode_cache_find fs/ext4/xattr.c:1465 [inline]
  ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create fs/ext4/xattr.c:1508 [inline]
  ext4_xattr_set_entry+0x1ce6/0x3780 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1649
  ext4_xattr_ibody_set+0x78/0x2b0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2224
  ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x8f4/0x13e0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2380
  ext4_xattr_set+0x13a/0x340 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2493

This should be impossible since transaction start sets PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS.
Add some assertions to the code to catch if something isn't working as
expected early.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/000000000000563a0205bafb7970@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210222171626.21884-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 163f0ec1df33cf468509ff38cbcbb5eb0d7fac60 upstream.

Syzbot is reporting that ext4 can enter fs reclaim from kvmalloc() while
the transaction is started like:

  fs_reclaim_acquire+0x117/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:4340
  might_alloc include/linux/sched/mm.h:193 [inline]
  slab_pre_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:493 [inline]
  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2817 [inline]
  __kmalloc_node+0x5f/0x430 mm/slub.c:4015
  kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:575 [inline]
  kvmalloc_node+0x61/0xf0 mm/util.c:587
  kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:781 [inline]
  ext4_xattr_inode_cache_find fs/ext4/xattr.c:1465 [inline]
  ext4_xattr_inode_lookup_create fs/ext4/xattr.c:1508 [inline]
  ext4_xattr_set_entry+0x1ce6/0x3780 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1649
  ext4_xattr_ibody_set+0x78/0x2b0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2224
  ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x8f4/0x13e0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2380
  ext4_xattr_set+0x13a/0x340 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2493

This should be impossible since transaction start sets PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS.
Add some assertions to the code to catch if something isn't working as
expected early.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/000000000000563a0205bafb7970@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210222171626.21884-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix potential error in ext4_do_update_inode</title>
<updated>2021-03-24T10:26:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shijie Luo</name>
<email>luoshijie1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-12T06:50:51+00:00</published>
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commit 7d8bd3c76da1d94b85e6c9b7007e20e980bfcfe6 upstream.

If set_large_file = 1 and errors occur in ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(),
the error code will be overridden, go to out_brelse to avoid this
situation.

Signed-off-by: Shijie Luo &lt;luoshijie1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312065051.36314-1-luoshijie1@huawei.com
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7d8bd3c76da1d94b85e6c9b7007e20e980bfcfe6 upstream.

If set_large_file = 1 and errors occur in ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(),
the error code will be overridden, go to out_brelse to avoid this
situation.

Signed-off-by: Shijie Luo &lt;luoshijie1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210312065051.36314-1-luoshijie1@huawei.com
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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