ext4: Handle -EDQUOT error on write

We need to release the journal before we do a write_inode.  Otherwise
we could deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index c818972c830..60b3a19e992 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1835,24 +1835,12 @@ repeat:
 	 * later. Real quota accounting is done at pages writeout
 	 * time.
 	 */
-	if (vfs_dq_reserve_block(inode, md_needed + 1)) {
-		/* 
-		 * We tend to badly over-estimate the amount of
-		 * metadata blocks which are needed, so if we have
-		 * reserved any metadata blocks, try to force out the
-		 * inode and see if we have any better luck.
-		 */
-		if (md_reserved && retries++ <= 3)
-			goto retry;
+	if (vfs_dq_reserve_block(inode, md_needed + 1))
 		return -EDQUOT;
-	}
 
 	if (ext4_claim_free_blocks(sbi, md_needed + 1)) {
 		vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, md_needed + 1);
 		if (ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)) {
-		retry:
-			if (md_reserved)
-				write_inode_now(inode, (retries == 3));
 			yield();
 			goto repeat;
 		}
@@ -3032,7 +3020,7 @@ static int ext4_da_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 			       loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
 			       struct page **pagep, void **fsdata)
 {
-	int ret, retries = 0;
+	int ret, retries = 0, quota_retries = 0;
 	struct page *page;
 	pgoff_t index;
 	unsigned from, to;
@@ -3091,6 +3079,22 @@ retry:
 
 	if (ret == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
 		goto retry;
+
+	if ((ret == -EDQUOT) &&
+	    EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_meta_blocks &&
+	    (quota_retries++ < 3)) {
+		/*
+		 * Since we often over-estimate the number of meta
+		 * data blocks required, we may sometimes get a
+		 * spurios out of quota error even though there would
+		 * be enough space once we write the data blocks and
+		 * find out how many meta data blocks were _really_
+		 * required.  So try forcing the inode write to see if
+		 * that helps.
+		 */
+		write_inode_now(inode, (quota_retries == 3));
+		goto retry;
+	}
 out:
 	return ret;
 }