[PATCH] btrfs: compression: don't try to compress if we don't have enough pages

[PATCH] btrfs: compression: don't try to compress if we don't have enough pages

[David Sterba]

The early check if we should attempt compression does not take into
account the number of input pages. It can happen that there's only one
page, eg. a tail page after some ranges of the BTRFS_MAX_UNCOMPRESSED
have been processed, or an isolated page that won't be converted to an
inline extent.

The single page would be compressed but a later check would drop it
again because the result size must be at least one block shorter than
the input. That can never work with just one page.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index a2494c645681..e6eb20987351 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ static noinline int compress_file_range(struct async_chunk *async_chunk)
 	 * inode has not been flagged as nocompress.  This flag can
 	 * change at any time if we discover bad compression ratios.
 	 */
-	if (inode_need_compress(BTRFS_I(inode), start, end)) {
+	if (nr_pages > 1 && inode_need_compress(BTRFS_I(inode), start, end)) {
 		WARN_ON(pages);
 		pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!pages) {
-- 
2.31.1