Patch "ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL in ext4_free_blocks()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL in ext4_free_blocks()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL in ext4_free_blocks()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ext4-use-__gfp_nofail-in-ext4_free_blocks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From adb7ef600cc9d9d15ecc934cc26af5c1379777df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:29:06 -0400
Subject: ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL in ext4_free_blocks()

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>

commit adb7ef600cc9d9d15ecc934cc26af5c1379777df upstream.

This might be unexpected but pages allocated for sbi->s_buddy_cache are
charged to current memory cgroup. So, GFP_NOFS allocation could fail if
current task has been killed by OOM or if current memory cgroup has no
free memory left. Block allocator cannot handle such failures here yet.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |   47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ static void mb_regenerate_buddy(struct e
  * for this page; do not hold this lock when calling this routine!
  */
 
-static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore)
+static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	ext4_group_t ngroups;
 	int blocksize;
@@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct pag
 	/* allocate buffer_heads to read bitmaps */
 	if (groups_per_page > 1) {
 		i = sizeof(struct buffer_head *) * groups_per_page;
-		bh = kzalloc(i, GFP_NOFS);
+		bh = kzalloc(i, gfp);
 		if (bh == NULL) {
 			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto out;
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ out:
  * are on the same page e4b->bd_buddy_page is NULL and return value is 0.
  */
 static int ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock(struct super_block *sb,
-		ext4_group_t group, struct ext4_buddy *e4b)
+		ext4_group_t group, struct ext4_buddy *e4b, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_buddy_cache;
 	int block, pnum, poff;
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ static int ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock(s
 	block = group * 2;
 	pnum = block / blocks_per_page;
 	poff = block % blocks_per_page;
-	page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, GFP_NOFS);
+	page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, gfp);
 	if (!page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	BUG_ON(page->mapping != inode->i_mapping);
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ static int ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock(s
 
 	block++;
 	pnum = block / blocks_per_page;
-	page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, GFP_NOFS);
+	page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, gfp);
 	if (!page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	BUG_ON(page->mapping != inode->i_mapping);
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_put_buddy_page_lock(
  * calling this routine!
  */
 static noinline_for_stack
-int ext4_mb_init_group(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group)
+int ext4_mb_init_group(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 
 	struct ext4_group_info *this_grp;
@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ int ext4_mb_init_group(struct super_bloc
 	 * The call to ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock will mark the
 	 * page accessed.
 	 */
-	ret = ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock(sb, group, &e4b);
+	ret = ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock(sb, group, &e4b, gfp);
 	if (ret || !EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(this_grp)) {
 		/*
 		 * somebody initialized the group
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ int ext4_mb_init_group(struct super_bloc
 	}
 
 	page = e4b.bd_bitmap_page;
-	ret = ext4_mb_init_cache(page, NULL);
+	ret = ext4_mb_init_cache(page, NULL, gfp);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;
 	if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ int ext4_mb_init_group(struct super_bloc
 	}
 	/* init buddy cache */
 	page = e4b.bd_buddy_page;
-	ret = ext4_mb_init_cache(page, e4b.bd_bitmap);
+	ret = ext4_mb_init_cache(page, e4b.bd_bitmap, gfp);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;
 	if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
@@ -1109,8 +1109,8 @@ err:
  * calling this routine!
  */
 static noinline_for_stack int
-ext4_mb_load_buddy(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
-					struct ext4_buddy *e4b)
+ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
+		       struct ext4_buddy *e4b, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	int blocks_per_page;
 	int block;
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ ext4_mb_load_buddy(struct super_block *s
 		 * we need full data about the group
 		 * to make a good selection
 		 */
-		ret = ext4_mb_init_group(sb, group);
+		ret = ext4_mb_init_group(sb, group, gfp);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 	}
@@ -1168,11 +1168,11 @@ ext4_mb_load_buddy(struct super_block *s
 			 * wait for it to initialize.
 			 */
 			page_cache_release(page);
-		page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, GFP_NOFS);
+		page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, gfp);
 		if (page) {
 			BUG_ON(page->mapping != inode->i_mapping);
 			if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
-				ret = ext4_mb_init_cache(page, NULL);
+				ret = ext4_mb_init_cache(page, NULL, gfp);
 				if (ret) {
 					unlock_page(page);
 					goto err;
@@ -1204,11 +1204,12 @@ ext4_mb_load_buddy(struct super_block *s
 	if (page == NULL || !PageUptodate(page)) {
 		if (page)
 			page_cache_release(page);
-		page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, GFP_NOFS);
+		page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, pnum, gfp);
 		if (page) {
 			BUG_ON(page->mapping != inode->i_mapping);
 			if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
-				ret = ext4_mb_init_cache(page, e4b->bd_bitmap);
+				ret = ext4_mb_init_cache(page, e4b->bd_bitmap,
+							 gfp);
 				if (ret) {
 					unlock_page(page);
 					goto err;
@@ -1247,6 +1248,12 @@ err:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int ext4_mb_load_buddy(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
+			      struct ext4_buddy *e4b)
+{
+	return ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp(sb, group, e4b, GFP_NOFS);
+}
+
 static void ext4_mb_unload_buddy(struct ext4_buddy *e4b)
 {
 	if (e4b->bd_bitmap_page)
@@ -2047,7 +2054,7 @@ static int ext4_mb_good_group(struct ext
 
 	/* We only do this if the grp has never been initialized */
 	if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp))) {
-		int ret = ext4_mb_init_group(ac->ac_sb, group);
+		int ret = ext4_mb_init_group(ac->ac_sb, group, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 	}
@@ -4808,7 +4815,9 @@ do_more:
 #endif
 	trace_ext4_mballoc_free(sb, inode, block_group, bit, count_clusters);
 
-	err = ext4_mb_load_buddy(sb, block_group, &e4b);
+	/* __GFP_NOFAIL: retry infinitely, ignore TIF_MEMDIE and memcg limit. */
+	err = ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp(sb, block_group, &e4b,
+				     GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
 	if (err)
 		goto error_return;
 
@@ -5210,7 +5219,7 @@ int ext4_trim_fs(struct super_block *sb,
 		grp = ext4_get_group_info(sb, group);
 		/* We only do this if the grp has never been initialized */
 		if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_NEED_INIT(grp))) {
-			ret = ext4_mb_init_group(sb, group);
+			ret = ext4_mb_init_group(sb, group, GFP_NOFS);
 			if (ret)
 				break;
 		}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru are

queue-4.4/ext4-use-__gfp_nofail-in-ext4_free_blocks.patch