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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index f9b0b479ff4..629d67b62df 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1688,12 +1688,21 @@ static void mpage_da_map_and_submit(struct mpage_da_data *mpd) */ map.m_lblk = next; map.m_len = max_blocks; - get_blocks_flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE; + /* + * We're in delalloc path and it is possible that we're going to + * need more metadata blocks than previously reserved. However + * we must not fail because we're in writeback and there is + * nothing we can do about it so it might result in data loss. + * So use reserved blocks to allocate metadata if possible. + */ + get_blocks_flags = EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE | + EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_METADATA_NOFAIL; if (ext4_should_dioread_nolock(mpd->inode)) get_blocks_flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_IO_CREATE_EXT; if (mpd->b_state & (1 << BH_Delay)) get_blocks_flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_DELALLOC_RESERVE; + blks = ext4_map_blocks(handle, mpd->inode, &map, get_blocks_flags); if (blks < 0) { struct super_block *sb = mpd->inode->i_sb; |