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    ext4: make sure enough credits are reserved for dioread_nolock writes · eb13c60d
    Theodore Ts'o authored
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    There are enough credits reserved for most dioread_nolock writes;
    however, if the extent tree is sufficiently deep, and/or quota is
    enabled, the code was not allowing for all eventualities when
    reserving journal credits for the unwritten extent conversion.
    
    This problem can be seen using xfstests ext4/034:
    
       WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 257 at fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:271 __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0x10c/0x180
       Workqueue: ext4-rsv-conversion ext4_end_io_rsv_work
       RIP: 0010:__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0x10c/0x180
       	...
       EXT4-fs: ext4_free_blocks:4938: aborting transaction: error 28 in __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata
       EXT4: jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata failed: handle type 11 started at line 4921, credits 4/0, errcode -28
       EXT4-fs error (device dm-1) in ext4_free_blocks:4950: error 28
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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