ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files
authorLachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Mon, 6 May 2013 03:10:00 +0000 (23:10 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 30 May 2013 13:34:51 +0000 (14:34 +0100)
commitf75ef16606bcde8f506b18ddf674bf7e78f99e27
treecfdfd079575eb8b3248de4e406138b7285cd7358
parent9628e65da399acd8b5301b5981f127d9e99ab45a
ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files

commit e6155736ad76b2070652745f9e54cdea3f0d8567 upstream.

In the case where we are allocating for a non-extent file,
we must limit the groups we allocate from to those below
2^32 blocks, and ext4_mb_regular_allocator() attempts to
do this initially by putting a cap on ngroups for the
subsequent search loop.

However, the initial target group comes in from the
allocation context (ac), and it may already be beyond
the artificially limited ngroups.  In this case,
the limit

if (group == ngroups)
group = 0;

at the top of the loop is never true, and the loop will
run away.

Catch this case inside the loop and reset the search to
start at group 0.

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Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/ext4/mballoc.c