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<title>ext4: fix race between ext4_sync_parent() and rename()</title>
<updated>2020-06-22T07:31:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T18:31:40+00:00</published>
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commit 08adf452e628b0e2ce9a01048cfbec52353703d7 upstream.

'igrab(d_inode(dentry-&gt;d_parent))' without holding dentry-&gt;d_lock is
broken because without d_lock, d_parent can be concurrently changed due
to a rename().  Then if the old directory is immediately deleted, old
d_parent-&gt;inode can be NULL.  That causes a NULL dereference in igrab().

To fix this, use dget_parent() to safely grab a reference to the parent
dentry, which pins the inode.  This also eliminates the need to use
d_find_any_alias() other than for the initial inode, as we no longer
throw away the dentry at each step.

This is an extremely hard race to hit, but it is possible.  Adding a
udelay() in between the reads of -&gt;d_parent and its -&gt;d_inode makes it
reproducible on a no-journal filesystem using the following program:

    #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

    int main()
    {
        if (fork()) {
            for (;;) {
                mkdir("dir1", 0700);
                int fd = open("dir1/file", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_SYNC);
                write(fd, "X", 1);
                close(fd);
            }
        } else {
            mkdir("dir2", 0700);
            for (;;) {
                rename("dir1/file", "dir2/file");
                rmdir("dir1");
            }
        }
    }

Fixes: d59729f4e794 ("ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506183140.541194-1-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 08adf452e628b0e2ce9a01048cfbec52353703d7 upstream.

'igrab(d_inode(dentry-&gt;d_parent))' without holding dentry-&gt;d_lock is
broken because without d_lock, d_parent can be concurrently changed due
to a rename().  Then if the old directory is immediately deleted, old
d_parent-&gt;inode can be NULL.  That causes a NULL dereference in igrab().

To fix this, use dget_parent() to safely grab a reference to the parent
dentry, which pins the inode.  This also eliminates the need to use
d_find_any_alias() other than for the initial inode, as we no longer
throw away the dentry at each step.

This is an extremely hard race to hit, but it is possible.  Adding a
udelay() in between the reads of -&gt;d_parent and its -&gt;d_inode makes it
reproducible on a no-journal filesystem using the following program:

    #include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
    #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

    int main()
    {
        if (fork()) {
            for (;;) {
                mkdir("dir1", 0700);
                int fd = open("dir1/file", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_SYNC);
                write(fd, "X", 1);
                close(fd);
            }
        } else {
            mkdir("dir2", 0700);
            for (;;) {
                rename("dir1/file", "dir2/file");
                rmdir("dir1");
            }
        }
    }

Fixes: d59729f4e794 ("ext4: fix races in ext4_sync_parent()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506183140.541194-1-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>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix error pointer dereference</title>
<updated>2020-06-22T07:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeffle Xu</name>
<email>jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-23T07:46:44+00:00</published>
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commit 8418897f1bf87da0cb6936489d57a4320c32c0af upstream.

Don't pass error pointers to brelse().

commit 7159a986b420 ("ext4: fix some error pointer dereferences") has fixed
some cases, fix the remaining one case.

Once ext4_xattr_block_find()-&gt;ext4_sb_bread() failed, error pointer is
stored in @bs-&gt;bh, which will be passed to brelse() in the cleanup
routine of ext4_xattr_set_handle(). This will then cause a NULL panic
crash in __brelse().

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000005b
RIP: 0010:__brelse+0x1b/0x50
Call Trace:
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x163/0x5d0
 ext4_xattr_set+0x95/0x110
 __vfs_setxattr+0x6b/0x80
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x68/0x1b0
 vfs_setxattr+0xa0/0xb0
 setxattr+0x12c/0x1a0
 path_setxattr+0x8d/0xc0
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0x27/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x60/0x250
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

In this case, @bs-&gt;bh stores '-EIO' actually.

Fixes: fb265c9cb49e ("ext4: add ext4_sb_bread() to disambiguate ENOMEM cases")
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu &lt;jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi &lt;joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.19
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani &lt;riteshh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587628004-95123-1-git-send-email-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.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 8418897f1bf87da0cb6936489d57a4320c32c0af upstream.

Don't pass error pointers to brelse().

commit 7159a986b420 ("ext4: fix some error pointer dereferences") has fixed
some cases, fix the remaining one case.

Once ext4_xattr_block_find()-&gt;ext4_sb_bread() failed, error pointer is
stored in @bs-&gt;bh, which will be passed to brelse() in the cleanup
routine of ext4_xattr_set_handle(). This will then cause a NULL panic
crash in __brelse().

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000005b
RIP: 0010:__brelse+0x1b/0x50
Call Trace:
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0x163/0x5d0
 ext4_xattr_set+0x95/0x110
 __vfs_setxattr+0x6b/0x80
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x68/0x1b0
 vfs_setxattr+0xa0/0xb0
 setxattr+0x12c/0x1a0
 path_setxattr+0x8d/0xc0
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0x27/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x60/0x250
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

In this case, @bs-&gt;bh stores '-EIO' actually.

Fixes: fb265c9cb49e ("ext4: add ext4_sb_bread() to disambiguate ENOMEM cases")
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu &lt;jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi &lt;joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.19
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani &lt;riteshh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587628004-95123-1-git-send-email-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.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 EXT_MAX_EXTENT/INDEX to check for zeroed eh_max</title>
<updated>2020-06-22T07:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harshad Shirwadkar</name>
<email>harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-21T02:39:59+00:00</published>
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commit c36a71b4e35ab35340facdd6964a00956b9fef0a upstream.

If eh-&gt;eh_max is 0, EXT_MAX_EXTENT/INDEX would evaluate to unsigned
(-1) resulting in illegal memory accesses. Although there is no
consistent repro, we see that generic/019 sometimes crashes because of
this bug.

Ran gce-xfstests smoke and verified that there were no regressions.

Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar &lt;harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421023959.20879-2-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c36a71b4e35ab35340facdd6964a00956b9fef0a upstream.

If eh-&gt;eh_max is 0, EXT_MAX_EXTENT/INDEX would evaluate to unsigned
(-1) resulting in illegal memory accesses. Although there is no
consistent repro, we see that generic/019 sometimes crashes because of
this bug.

Ran gce-xfstests smoke and verified that there were no regressions.

Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar &lt;harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200421023959.20879-2-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: check for non-zero journal inum in ext4_calculate_overhead</title>
<updated>2020-05-02T06:49:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ritesh Harjani</name>
<email>riteshh@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-16T09:30:38+00:00</published>
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commit f1eec3b0d0a849996ebee733b053efa71803dad5 upstream.

While calculating overhead for internal journal, also check
that j_inum shouldn't be 0. Otherwise we get below error with
xfstests generic/050 with external journal (XXX_LOGDEV config) enabled.

It could be simply reproduced with loop device with an external journal
and marking blockdev as RO before mounting.

[ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
------------[ cut here ]------------
generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
CPU: 107 PID: 115347 Comm: mount Tainted: G             L   --------- -t - 4.18.0-167.el8.ppc64le #1
NIP:  c0000000006f6d44 LR: c0000000006f6d40 CTR: 0000000030041dd4
&lt;...&gt;
NIP [c0000000006f6d44] generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
LR [c0000000006f6d40] generic_make_request_checks+0x6b0/0x7d0
&lt;...&gt;
Call Trace:
generic_make_request_checks+0x6b0/0x7d0 (unreliable)
generic_make_request+0x3c/0x420
submit_bio+0xd8/0x200
submit_bh_wbc+0x1e8/0x250
__sync_dirty_buffer+0xd0/0x210
ext4_commit_super+0x310/0x420 [ext4]
__ext4_error+0xa4/0x1e0 [ext4]
__ext4_iget+0x388/0xe10 [ext4]
ext4_get_journal_inode+0x40/0x150 [ext4]
ext4_calculate_overhead+0x5a8/0x610 [ext4]
ext4_fill_super+0x3188/0x3260 [ext4]
mount_bdev+0x778/0x8f0
ext4_mount+0x28/0x50 [ext4]
mount_fs+0x74/0x230
vfs_kern_mount.part.6+0x6c/0x250
do_mount+0x2fc/0x1280
sys_mount+0x158/0x180
system_call+0x5c/0x70
EXT4-fs (pmem1p2): no journal found
EXT4-fs (pmem1p2): can't get journal size
EXT4-fs (pmem1p2): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: dax,norecovery

Fixes: 3c816ded78bb ("ext4: use journal inode to determine journal overhead")
Reported-by: Harish Sriram &lt;harish@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani &lt;riteshh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200316093038.25485-1-riteshh@linux.ibm.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 f1eec3b0d0a849996ebee733b053efa71803dad5 upstream.

While calculating overhead for internal journal, also check
that j_inum shouldn't be 0. Otherwise we get below error with
xfstests generic/050 with external journal (XXX_LOGDEV config) enabled.

It could be simply reproduced with loop device with an external journal
and marking blockdev as RO before mounting.

[ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
------------[ cut here ]------------
generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
CPU: 107 PID: 115347 Comm: mount Tainted: G             L   --------- -t - 4.18.0-167.el8.ppc64le #1
NIP:  c0000000006f6d44 LR: c0000000006f6d40 CTR: 0000000030041dd4
&lt;...&gt;
NIP [c0000000006f6d44] generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
LR [c0000000006f6d40] generic_make_request_checks+0x6b0/0x7d0
&lt;...&gt;
Call Trace:
generic_make_request_checks+0x6b0/0x7d0 (unreliable)
generic_make_request+0x3c/0x420
submit_bio+0xd8/0x200
submit_bh_wbc+0x1e8/0x250
__sync_dirty_buffer+0xd0/0x210
ext4_commit_super+0x310/0x420 [ext4]
__ext4_error+0xa4/0x1e0 [ext4]
__ext4_iget+0x388/0xe10 [ext4]
ext4_get_journal_inode+0x40/0x150 [ext4]
ext4_calculate_overhead+0x5a8/0x610 [ext4]
ext4_fill_super+0x3188/0x3260 [ext4]
mount_bdev+0x778/0x8f0
ext4_mount+0x28/0x50 [ext4]
mount_fs+0x74/0x230
vfs_kern_mount.part.6+0x6c/0x250
do_mount+0x2fc/0x1280
sys_mount+0x158/0x180
system_call+0x5c/0x70
EXT4-fs (pmem1p2): no journal found
EXT4-fs (pmem1p2): can't get journal size
EXT4-fs (pmem1p2): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: dax,norecovery

Fixes: 3c816ded78bb ("ext4: use journal inode to determine journal overhead")
Reported-by: Harish Sriram &lt;harish@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani &lt;riteshh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200316093038.25485-1-riteshh@linux.ibm.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: convert BUG_ON's to WARN_ON's in mballoc.c</title>
<updated>2020-05-02T06:48:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-14T03:33:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 907ea529fc4c3296701d2bfc8b831dd2a8121a34 ]

If the in-core buddy bitmap gets corrupted (or out of sync with the
block bitmap), issue a WARN_ON and try to recover.  In most cases this
involves skipping trying to allocate out of a particular block group.
We can end up declaring the file system corrupted, which is fair,
since the file system probably should be checked before we proceed any
further.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200414035649.293164-1-tytso@mit.edu
Google-Bug-Id: 34811296
Google-Bug-Id: 34639169
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 907ea529fc4c3296701d2bfc8b831dd2a8121a34 ]

If the in-core buddy bitmap gets corrupted (or out of sync with the
block bitmap), issue a WARN_ON and try to recover.  In most cases this
involves skipping trying to allocate out of a particular block group.
We can end up declaring the file system corrupted, which is fair,
since the file system probably should be checked before we proceed any
further.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200414035649.293164-1-tytso@mit.edu
Google-Bug-Id: 34811296
Google-Bug-Id: 34639169
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: increase wait time needed before reuse of deleted inode numbers</title>
<updated>2020-05-02T06:48:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-14T02:30:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a17a9d935dc4a50acefaf319d58030f1da7f115a ]

Current wait times have proven to be too short to protect against inode
reuses that lead to metadata inconsistencies.

Now that we will retry the inode allocation if we can't find any
recently deleted inodes, it's a lot safer to increase the recently
deleted time from 5 seconds to a minute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200414023925.273867-1-tytso@mit.edu
Google-Bug-Id: 36602237
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 a17a9d935dc4a50acefaf319d58030f1da7f115a ]

Current wait times have proven to be too short to protect against inode
reuses that lead to metadata inconsistencies.

Now that we will retry the inode allocation if we can't find any
recently deleted inodes, it's a lot safer to increase the recently
deleted time from 5 seconds to a minute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200414023925.273867-1-tytso@mit.edu
Google-Bug-Id: 36602237
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: use matching invalidatepage in ext4_writepage</title>
<updated>2020-05-02T06:48:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>yangerkun</name>
<email>yangerkun@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-26T04:10:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c2a559bc0e7ed5a715ad6b947025b33cb7c05ea7 ]

Run generic/388 with journal data mode sometimes may trigger the warning
in ext4_invalidatepage. Actually, we should use the matching invalidatepage
in ext4_writepage.

Signed-off-by: yangerkun &lt;yangerkun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani &lt;riteshh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226041002.13914-1-yangerkun@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 c2a559bc0e7ed5a715ad6b947025b33cb7c05ea7 ]

Run generic/388 with journal data mode sometimes may trigger the warning
in ext4_invalidatepage. Actually, we should use the matching invalidatepage
in ext4_writepage.

Signed-off-by: yangerkun &lt;yangerkun@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani &lt;riteshh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226041002.13914-1-yangerkun@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 extent_status fragmentation for plain files</title>
<updated>2020-04-29T14:32:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Monakhov</name>
<email>dmonakhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-06T12:25:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4068664e3cd2312610ceac05b74c4cf1853b8325 ]

Extents are cached in read_extent_tree_block(); as a result, extents
are not cached for inodes with depth == 0 when we try to find the
extent using ext4_find_extent().  The result of the lookup is cached
in ext4_map_blocks() but is only a subset of the extent on disk.  As a
result, the contents of extents status cache can get very badly
fragmented for certain workloads, such as a random 4k read workload.

File size of /mnt/test is 33554432 (8192 blocks of 4096 bytes)
 ext:     logical_offset:        physical_offset: length:   expected: flags:
   0:        0..    8191:      40960..     49151:   8192:             last,eof

$ perf record -e 'ext4:ext4_es_*' /root/bin/fio --name=t --direct=0 --rw=randread --bs=4k --filesize=32M --size=32M --filename=/mnt/test
$ perf script | grep ext4_es_insert_extent | head -n 10
             fio   131 [000]    13.975421:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [494/1) mapped 41454 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.975939:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [6064/1) mapped 47024 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.976467:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [6907/1) mapped 47867 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.976937:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [3850/1) mapped 44810 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.977440:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [3292/1) mapped 44252 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.977931:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [6882/1) mapped 47842 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.978376:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [3117/1) mapped 44077 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.978957:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [2896/1) mapped 43856 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.979474:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [7479/1) mapped 48439 status W

Fix this by caching the extents for inodes with depth == 0 in
ext4_find_extent().

[ Renamed ext4_es_cache_extents() to ext4_cache_extents() since this
  newly added function is not in extents_cache.c, and to avoid
  potential visual confusion with ext4_es_cache_extent().  -TYT ]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191106122502.19986-1-dmonakhov@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 4068664e3cd2312610ceac05b74c4cf1853b8325 ]

Extents are cached in read_extent_tree_block(); as a result, extents
are not cached for inodes with depth == 0 when we try to find the
extent using ext4_find_extent().  The result of the lookup is cached
in ext4_map_blocks() but is only a subset of the extent on disk.  As a
result, the contents of extents status cache can get very badly
fragmented for certain workloads, such as a random 4k read workload.

File size of /mnt/test is 33554432 (8192 blocks of 4096 bytes)
 ext:     logical_offset:        physical_offset: length:   expected: flags:
   0:        0..    8191:      40960..     49151:   8192:             last,eof

$ perf record -e 'ext4:ext4_es_*' /root/bin/fio --name=t --direct=0 --rw=randread --bs=4k --filesize=32M --size=32M --filename=/mnt/test
$ perf script | grep ext4_es_insert_extent | head -n 10
             fio   131 [000]    13.975421:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [494/1) mapped 41454 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.975939:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [6064/1) mapped 47024 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.976467:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [6907/1) mapped 47867 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.976937:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [3850/1) mapped 44810 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.977440:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [3292/1) mapped 44252 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.977931:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [6882/1) mapped 47842 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.978376:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [3117/1) mapped 44077 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.978957:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [2896/1) mapped 43856 status W
             fio   131 [000]    13.979474:           ext4:ext4_es_insert_extent: dev 253,0 ino 12 es [7479/1) mapped 48439 status W

Fix this by caching the extents for inodes with depth == 0 in
ext4_find_extent().

[ Renamed ext4_es_cache_extents() to ext4_cache_extents() since this
  newly added function is not in extents_cache.c, and to avoid
  potential visual confusion with ext4_es_cache_extent().  -TYT ]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191106122502.19986-1-dmonakhov@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>
<entry>
<title>ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev</title>
<updated>2020-04-23T08:36:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-18T19:19:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c96e2b8564adfb8ac14469ebc51ddc1bfecb3ae2 ]

Under some circumstances we may encounter a filesystem error on a
read-only block device, and if we try to save the error info to the
superblock and commit it, we'll wind up with a noisy error and
backtrace, i.e.:

[ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
------------[ cut here ]------------
generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
...

To avoid this, commit the error info in the superblock only if the
block device is writable.

Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani &lt;riteshh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b6e774d-cc00-3469-7abb-108eb151071a@sandeen.net
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 c96e2b8564adfb8ac14469ebc51ddc1bfecb3ae2 ]

Under some circumstances we may encounter a filesystem error on a
read-only block device, and if we try to save the error info to the
superblock and commit it, we'll wind up with a noisy error and
backtrace, i.e.:

[ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
------------[ cut here ]------------
generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
...

To avoid this, commit the error info in the superblock only if the
block device is writable.

Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani &lt;riteshh@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b6e774d-cc00-3469-7abb-108eb151071a@sandeen.net
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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: use non-movable memory for superblock readahead</title>
<updated>2020-04-23T08:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>guro@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-29T00:14:11+00:00</published>
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commit d87f639258a6a5980183f11876c884931ad93da2 upstream.

Since commit a8ac900b8163 ("ext4: use non-movable memory for the
superblock") buffers for ext4 superblock were allocated using
the sb_bread_unmovable() helper which allocated buffer heads
out of non-movable memory blocks. It was necessarily to not block
page migrations and do not cause cma allocation failures.

However commit 85c8f176a611 ("ext4: preload block group descriptors")
broke this by introducing pre-reading of the ext4 superblock.
The problem is that __breadahead() is using __getblk() underneath,
which allocates buffer heads out of movable memory.

It resulted in page migration failures I've seen on a machine
with an ext4 partition and a preallocated cma area.

Fix this by introducing sb_breadahead_unmovable() and
__breadahead_gfp() helpers which use non-movable memory for buffer
head allocations and use them for the ext4 superblock readahead.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Fixes: 85c8f176a611 ("ext4: preload block group descriptors")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200229001411.128010-1-guro@fb.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 d87f639258a6a5980183f11876c884931ad93da2 upstream.

Since commit a8ac900b8163 ("ext4: use non-movable memory for the
superblock") buffers for ext4 superblock were allocated using
the sb_bread_unmovable() helper which allocated buffer heads
out of non-movable memory blocks. It was necessarily to not block
page migrations and do not cause cma allocation failures.

However commit 85c8f176a611 ("ext4: preload block group descriptors")
broke this by introducing pre-reading of the ext4 superblock.
The problem is that __breadahead() is using __getblk() underneath,
which allocates buffer heads out of movable memory.

It resulted in page migration failures I've seen on a machine
with an ext4 partition and a preallocated cma area.

Fix this by introducing sb_breadahead_unmovable() and
__breadahead_gfp() helpers which use non-movable memory for buffer
head allocations and use them for the ext4 superblock readahead.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Fixes: 85c8f176a611 ("ext4: preload block group descriptors")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200229001411.128010-1-guro@fb.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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