ext4: check for need init flag in ext4_mb_load_buddy

We should check for need init flag with the group's alloc_sem held, to
make sure while we are loading the buddy cache and holding a reference
to it, a file system resize can't add new blocks to same group.

The patch also drops the need init flag check in
ext4_mb_regular_allocator() because doing the check without holding
alloc_sem is racy.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index fed5ac69914..484c9d10c7f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -1034,8 +1034,26 @@ ext4_mb_load_buddy(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 	 * groups mapped by the page is blocked
 	 * till we are done with allocation
 	 */
+repeat_load_buddy:
 	down_read(e4b->alloc_semp);
 
+	if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp))) {
+		/* we need to check for group need init flag
+		 * with alloc_semp held so that we can be sure
+		 * that new blocks didn't get added to the group
+		 * when we are loading the buddy cache
+		 */
+		up_read(e4b->alloc_semp);
+		/*
+		 * we need full data about the group
+		 * to make a good selection
+		 */
+		ret = ext4_mb_init_group(sb, group);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+		goto repeat_load_buddy;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * the buddy cache inode stores the block bitmap
 	 * and buddy information in consecutive blocks.
@@ -2012,27 +2030,6 @@ repeat:
 			if (grp->bb_free == 0)
 				continue;
 
-			/*
-			 * if the group is already init we check whether it is
-			 * a good group and if not we don't load the buddy
-			 */
-			if (EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp)) {
-				/*
-				 * we need full data about the group
-				 * to make a good selection
-				 */
-				err = ext4_mb_init_group(sb, group);
-				if (err)
-					goto out;
-			}
-
-			/*
-			 * If the particular group doesn't satisfy our
-			 * criteria we continue with the next group
-			 */
-			if (!ext4_mb_good_group(ac, group, cr))
-				continue;
-
 			err = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, group, &e4b);
 			if (err)
 				goto out;