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
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