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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2013-07-13 00:40:35 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2013-07-13 00:40:35 -0400 |
| commit | e7676a704ee0a1ef71a6b23760b5a8f6896cb1a1 (patch) | |
| tree | a0baabd652713be5622578c8783dabfaf1141687 /fs | |
| parent | bdafe42aaf72859166f784f0fad3e6b4a815fa6d (diff) | |
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ext4: don't allow ext4_free_blocks() to fail due to ENOMEM
The filesystem should not be marked inconsistent if ext4_free_blocks()
is not able to allocate memory. Unfortunately some callers (most
notably ext4_truncate) don't have a way to reflect an error back up to
the VFS. And even if we did, most userspace applications won't deal
with most system calls returning ENOMEM anyway.
Reported-by: Nagachandra P <nagachandra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index a9ff5e5137ca..4bbbf13bd743 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -4740,11 +4740,16 @@ do_more: * blocks being freed are metadata. these blocks shouldn't * be used until this transaction is committed */ + retry: new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep, GFP_NOFS); if (!new_entry) { - ext4_mb_unload_buddy(&e4b); - err = -ENOMEM; - goto error_return; + /* + * We use a retry loop because + * ext4_free_blocks() is not allowed to fail. + */ + cond_resched(); + congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50); + goto retry; } new_entry->efd_start_cluster = bit; new_entry->efd_group = block_group; |