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    ext4: don't let i_reserved_meta_blocks go negative · 97795d2a
    Brian Foster authored
    
    
    If we hit a condition where we have allocated metadata blocks that
    were not appropriately reserved, we risk underflow of
    ei->i_reserved_meta_blocks.  In turn, this can throw
    sbi->s_dirtyclusters_counter significantly out of whack and undermine
    the nondelalloc fallback logic in ext4_nonda_switch().  Warn if this
    occurs and set i_allocated_meta_blocks to avoid this problem.
    
    This condition is reproduced by xfstests 270 against ext2 with
    delalloc enabled:
    
    Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526344] EXT4-fs (loop1): delayed block allocation failed for inode 14 at logical offset 64486 with max blocks 64 with error -28
    Mar 28 08:58:02 localhost kernel: [  171.526346] EXT4-fs (loop1): This should not happen!! Data will be lost
    
    270 ultimately fails with an inconsistent filesystem and requires an
    fsck to repair.  The cause of the error is an underflow in
    ext4_da_update_reserve_space() due to an unreserved meta block
    allocation.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    97795d2a