Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:15:36 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [108/165] ext4: Issue the discard operation *before* releasing the blocks to be reused |
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2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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commit b90f687018e6d6c77d981b09203780f7001407e5 upstream (as of v2.6.34-rc6)
Otherwise, we can end up having data corruption because the blocks could get reused and then discarded!
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15579
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 24 +++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2537,6 +2537,17 @@ static void release_blocks_on_commit(jou mb_debug(1, "gonna free %u blocks in group %u (0x%p):", entry->count, entry->group, entry); + if (test_opt(sb, DISCARD)) { + ext4_fsblk_t discard_block; + + discard_block = entry->start_blk + + ext4_group_first_block_no(sb, entry->group); + trace_ext4_discard_blocks(sb, + (unsigned long long)discard_block, + entry->count); + sb_issue_discard(sb, discard_block, entry->count); + } + err = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, entry->group, &e4b); /* we expect to find existing buddy because it's pinned */ BUG_ON(err != 0); @@ -2558,19 +2569,6 @@ static void release_blocks_on_commit(jou page_cache_release(e4b.bd_bitmap_page); } ext4_unlock_group(sb, entry->group); - if (test_opt(sb, DISCARD)) { - ext4_fsblk_t discard_block; - struct ext4_super_block *es = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_es; - - discard_block = (ext4_fsblk_t)entry->group * - EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb) - + entry->start_blk - + le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block); - trace_ext4_discard_blocks(sb, - (unsigned long long)discard_block, - entry->count); - sb_issue_discard(sb, discard_block, entry->count); - } kmem_cache_free(ext4_free_ext_cachep, entry); ext4_mb_release_desc(&e4b); }
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