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<title>litmus-rt.git/fs/ext4, branch test</title>
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<title>ext4: fix an ext3 collapse range regression in xfstests</title>
<updated>2015-05-15T04:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-15T04:24:10+00:00</published>
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The xfstests test suite assumes that an attempt to collapse range on
the range (0, 1) will return EOPNOTSUPP if the file system does not
support collapse range.  Commit 280227a75b56: "ext4: move check under
lock scope to close a race" broke this, and this caused xfstests to
fail when run when testing file systems that did not have the extents
feature enabled.

Reported-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The xfstests test suite assumes that an attempt to collapse range on
the range (0, 1) will return EOPNOTSUPP if the file system does not
support collapse range.  Commit 280227a75b56: "ext4: move check under
lock scope to close a race" broke this, and this caused xfstests to
fail when run when testing file systems that did not have the extents
feature enabled.

Reported-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: check for zero length extent explicitly</title>
<updated>2015-05-14T23:00:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eryu Guan</name>
<email>guaneryu@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-14T23:00:45+00:00</published>
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The following commit introduced a bug when checking for zero length extent

5946d08 ext4: check for overlapping extents in ext4_valid_extent_entries()

Zero length extent could pass the check if lblock is zero.

Adding the explicit check for zero length back.

Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan &lt;guaneryu@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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The following commit introduced a bug when checking for zero length extent

5946d08 ext4: check for overlapping extents in ext4_valid_extent_entries()

Zero length extent could pass the check if lblock is zero.

Adding the explicit check for zero length back.

Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan &lt;guaneryu@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference when journal restart fails</title>
<updated>2015-05-14T22:55:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Czerner</name>
<email>lczerner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-14T22:55:18+00:00</published>
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Currently when journal restart fails, we'll have the h_transaction of
the handle set to NULL to indicate that the handle has been effectively
aborted. We handle this situation quietly in the jbd2_journal_stop() and just
free the handle and exit because everything else has been done before we
attempted (and failed) to restart the journal.

Unfortunately there are a number of problems with that approach
introduced with commit

41a5b913197c "jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart()
fails"

First of all in ext4 jbd2_journal_stop() will be called through
__ext4_journal_stop() where we would try to get a hold of the superblock
by dereferencing h_transaction which in this case would lead to NULL
pointer dereference and crash.

In addition we're going to free the handle regardless of the refcount
which is bad as well, because others up the call chain will still
reference the handle so we might potentially reference already freed
memory.

Moreover it's expected that we'll get aborted handle as well as detached
handle in some of the journalling function as the error propagates up
the stack, so it's unnecessary to call WARN_ON every time we get
detached handle.

And finally we might leak some memory by forgetting to free reserved
handle in jbd2_journal_stop() in the case where handle was detached from
the transaction (h_transaction is NULL).

Fix the NULL pointer dereference in __ext4_journal_stop() by just
calling jbd2_journal_stop() quietly as suggested by Jan Kara. Also fix
the potential memory leak in jbd2_journal_stop() and use proper
handle refcounting before we attempt to free it to avoid use-after-free
issues.

And finally remove all WARN_ON(!transaction) from the code so that we do
not get random traces when something goes wrong because when journal
restart fails we will get to some of those functions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Currently when journal restart fails, we'll have the h_transaction of
the handle set to NULL to indicate that the handle has been effectively
aborted. We handle this situation quietly in the jbd2_journal_stop() and just
free the handle and exit because everything else has been done before we
attempted (and failed) to restart the journal.

Unfortunately there are a number of problems with that approach
introduced with commit

41a5b913197c "jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart()
fails"

First of all in ext4 jbd2_journal_stop() will be called through
__ext4_journal_stop() where we would try to get a hold of the superblock
by dereferencing h_transaction which in this case would lead to NULL
pointer dereference and crash.

In addition we're going to free the handle regardless of the refcount
which is bad as well, because others up the call chain will still
reference the handle so we might potentially reference already freed
memory.

Moreover it's expected that we'll get aborted handle as well as detached
handle in some of the journalling function as the error propagates up
the stack, so it's unnecessary to call WARN_ON every time we get
detached handle.

And finally we might leak some memory by forgetting to free reserved
handle in jbd2_journal_stop() in the case where handle was detached from
the transaction (h_transaction is NULL).

Fix the NULL pointer dereference in __ext4_journal_stop() by just
calling jbd2_journal_stop() quietly as suggested by Jan Kara. Also fix
the potential memory leak in jbd2_journal_stop() and use proper
handle refcounting before we attempt to free it to avoid use-after-free
issues.

And finally remove all WARN_ON(!transaction) from the code so that we do
not get random traces when something goes wrong because when journal
restart fails we will get to some of those functions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: remove unused function prototype from ext4.h</title>
<updated>2015-05-14T22:43:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-14T22:43:36+00:00</published>
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The ext4_extent_tree_init() function hasn't been in the ext4 code for
a long time ago, except in an unused function prototype in ext4.h

Google-Bug-Id: 4530137
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The ext4_extent_tree_init() function hasn't been in the ext4 code for
a long time ago, except in an unused function prototype in ext4.h

Google-Bug-Id: 4530137
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: don't save the error information if the block device is read-only</title>
<updated>2015-05-14T22:37:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-14T22:37:30+00:00</published>
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Google-Bug-Id: 20939131
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Google-Bug-Id: 20939131
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix lazytime optimization</title>
<updated>2015-05-14T22:19:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-14T22:19:01+00:00</published>
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We had a fencepost error in the lazytime optimization which means that
timestamp would get written to the wrong inode.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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We had a fencepost error in the lazytime optimization which means that
timestamp would get written to the wrong inode.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2015-05-04T01:23:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-04T01:23:53+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Some miscellaneous bug fixes and some final on-disk and ABI changes
  for ext4 encryption which provide better security and performance"

* tag 'for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: fix growing of tiny filesystems
  ext4: move check under lock scope to close a race.
  ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents
  ext4 crypto: remove duplicated encryption mode definitions
  ext4 crypto: do not select from EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION
  ext4 crypto: add padding to filenames before encrypting
  ext4 crypto: simplify and speed up filename encryption
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Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Some miscellaneous bug fixes and some final on-disk and ABI changes
  for ext4 encryption which provide better security and performance"

* tag 'for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: fix growing of tiny filesystems
  ext4: move check under lock scope to close a race.
  ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents
  ext4 crypto: remove duplicated encryption mode definitions
  ext4 crypto: do not select from EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION
  ext4 crypto: add padding to filenames before encrypting
  ext4 crypto: simplify and speed up filename encryption
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix growing of tiny filesystems</title>
<updated>2015-05-03T03:58:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-03T03:58:32+00:00</published>
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The estimate of necessary transaction credits in ext4_flex_group_add()
is too pessimistic. It reserves credit for sb, resize inode, and resize
inode dindirect block for each group added in a flex group although they
are always the same block and thus it is enough to account them only
once. Also the number of modified GDT block is overestimated since we
fit EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb) descriptors in one block.

Make the estimation more precise. That reduces number of requested
credits enough that we can grow 20 MB filesystem (which has 1 MB
journal, 79 reserved GDT blocks, and flex group size 16 by default).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
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The estimate of necessary transaction credits in ext4_flex_group_add()
is too pessimistic. It reserves credit for sb, resize inode, and resize
inode dindirect block for each group added in a flex group although they
are always the same block and thus it is enough to account them only
once. Also the number of modified GDT block is overestimated since we
fit EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK(sb) descriptors in one block.

Make the estimation more precise. That reduces number of requested
credits enough that we can grow 20 MB filesystem (which has 1 MB
journal, 79 reserved GDT blocks, and flex group size 16 by default).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: move check under lock scope to close a race.</title>
<updated>2015-05-03T03:21:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davide Italiano</name>
<email>dccitaliano@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-03T03:21:15+00:00</published>
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fallocate() checks that the file is extent-based and returns
EOPNOTSUPP in case is not. Other tasks can convert from and to
indirect and extent so it's safe to check only after grabbing
the inode mutex.

Signed-off-by: Davide Italiano &lt;dccitaliano@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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fallocate() checks that the file is extent-based and returns
EOPNOTSUPP in case is not. Other tasks can convert from and to
indirect and extent so it's safe to check only after grabbing
the inode mutex.

Signed-off-by: Davide Italiano &lt;dccitaliano@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents</title>
<updated>2015-05-03T01:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Czerner</name>
<email>lczerner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-03T01:36:55+00:00</published>
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Currently it is possible to lose whole file system block worth of data
when we hit the specific interaction with unwritten and delayed extents
in status extent tree.

The problem is that when we insert delayed extent into extent status
tree the only way to get rid of it is when we write out delayed buffer.
However there is a limitation in the extent status tree implementation
so that when inserting unwritten extent should there be even a single
delayed block the whole unwritten extent would be marked as delayed.

At this point, there is no way to get rid of the delayed extents,
because there are no delayed buffers to write out. So when a we write
into said unwritten extent we will convert it to written, but it still
remains delayed.

When we try to write into that block later ext4_da_map_blocks() will set
the buffer new and delayed and map it to invalid block which causes
the rest of the block to be zeroed loosing already written data.

For now we can fix this by simply not allowing to set delayed status on
written extent in the extent status tree. Also add WARN_ON() to make
sure that we notice if this happens in the future.

This problem can be easily reproduced by running the following xfs_io.

xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 4096 2048" \
          -c "falloc 0 131072" \
          -c "pwrite -S 0xbb 65536 2048" \
          -c "fsync" /mnt/test/fff

echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xdd 67584 2048" /mnt/test/fff

This can be theoretically also reproduced by at random by running fsx,
but it's not very reliable, though on machines with bigger page size
(like ppc) this can be seen more often (especially xfstest generic/127)

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Currently it is possible to lose whole file system block worth of data
when we hit the specific interaction with unwritten and delayed extents
in status extent tree.

The problem is that when we insert delayed extent into extent status
tree the only way to get rid of it is when we write out delayed buffer.
However there is a limitation in the extent status tree implementation
so that when inserting unwritten extent should there be even a single
delayed block the whole unwritten extent would be marked as delayed.

At this point, there is no way to get rid of the delayed extents,
because there are no delayed buffers to write out. So when a we write
into said unwritten extent we will convert it to written, but it still
remains delayed.

When we try to write into that block later ext4_da_map_blocks() will set
the buffer new and delayed and map it to invalid block which causes
the rest of the block to be zeroed loosing already written data.

For now we can fix this by simply not allowing to set delayed status on
written extent in the extent status tree. Also add WARN_ON() to make
sure that we notice if this happens in the future.

This problem can be easily reproduced by running the following xfs_io.

xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 4096 2048" \
          -c "falloc 0 131072" \
          -c "pwrite -S 0xbb 65536 2048" \
          -c "fsync" /mnt/test/fff

echo 3 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xdd 67584 2048" /mnt/test/fff

This can be theoretically also reproduced by at random by running fsx,
but it's not very reliable, though on machines with bigger page size
(like ppc) this can be seen more often (especially xfstest generic/127)

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner &lt;lczerner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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