From e7676a704ee0a1ef71a6b23760b5a8f6896cb1a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:40:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file 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;