ext4: remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure

This fixes a leak of blocks in an inode prealloc list if device failures
cause ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used() to fail.

Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index ab2dad1dfb7..19635c34199 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -3011,6 +3011,24 @@ static void ext4_mb_collect_stats(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Called on failure; free up any blocks from the inode PA for this
+ * context.  We don't need this for MB_GROUP_PA because we only change
+ * pa_free in ext4_mb_release_context(), but on failure, we've already
+ * zeroed out ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len, so group_pa->pa_free is not changed.
+ */
+static void ext4_discard_allocated_blocks(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
+{
+	struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa = ac->ac_pa;
+	int len;
+
+	if (pa && pa->pa_type == MB_INODE_PA) {
+		len = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len;
+		pa->pa_free += len;
+	}
+
+}
+
+/*
  * use blocks preallocated to inode
  */
 static void ext4_mb_use_inode_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac,
@@ -4295,6 +4313,7 @@ repeat:
 			ac->ac_status = AC_STATUS_CONTINUE;
 			goto repeat;
 		} else if (*errp) {
+			ext4_discard_allocated_blocks(ac);
 			ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len = 0;
 			ar->len = 0;
 			ext4_mb_show_ac(ac);