tree 50b4813da3bdf8eb0963435bbc910fe231d913a3
parent 23301410972330c0ae9a8afc379ba2005e249cc6
author Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1392517993 -0500
committer Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1392517993 -0500

ext4: fix online resize with very large inode tables

If a file system has a large number of inodes per block group, all of
the metadata blocks in a flex_bg may be larger than what can fit in a
single block group.  Unfortunately, ext4_alloc_group_tables() in
resize.c was never tested to see if it would handle this case
correctly, and there were a large number of bugs which caused the
following sequence to result in a BUG_ON:

kernel bug at fs/ext4/resize.c:409!
   ...
call trace:
 [<ffffffff81256768>] ext4_flex_group_add+0x1448/0x1830
 [<ffffffff81257de2>] ext4_resize_fs+0x7b2/0xe80
 [<ffffffff8123ac50>] ext4_ioctl+0xbf0/0xf00
 [<ffffffff811c111d>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2dd/0x4b0
 [<ffffffff811b9df2>] ? final_putname+0x22/0x50
 [<ffffffff811c1371>] sys_ioctl+0x81/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81676aa9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
code: c8 4c 89 df e8 41 96 f8 ff 44 89 e8 49 01 c4 44 29 6d d4 0
rip  [<ffffffff81254fa1>] set_flexbg_block_bitmap+0x171/0x180


This can be reproduced with the following command sequence:

   mke2fs -t ext4 -i 4096 /dev/vdd 1G
   mount -t ext4 /dev/vdd /vdd
   resize2fs /dev/vdd 8G

To fix this, we need to make sure the right thing happens when a block
group's inode table straddles two block groups, which means the
following bugs had to be fixed:

1) Not clearing the BLOCK_UNINIT flag in the second block group in
   ext4_alloc_group_tables --- the was proximate cause of the BUG_ON.

2) Incorrectly determining how many block groups contained contiguous
   free blocks in ext4_alloc_group_tables().

3) Incorrectly setting the start of the next block range to be marked
   in use after a discontinuity in setup_new_flex_group_blocks().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org