ext4: Fix block bitmap inconsistencies after a crash when deleting files

Browse source

We have experienced bitmap inconsistencies after crash during file
delete under heavy load.  The crash is not file system related and I
the following patch in ext4_free_branches() fixes the recovery
problem.

If the transaction is restarted and there is a crash before the new
transaction is committed, then after recovery, the blocks that this
indirect block points to have been freed, but the indirect block
itself has not been freed and may still point to some of the free
blocks (because of the ext4_forget()).

So ext4_forget() should be called inside ext4_free_blocks() to avoid
this problem.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

...

This commit is contained in:

Amir G 2010-07-27 11:56:05 -04:00 • committed by Theodore Ts'o

parent a271fe8527

commit 4038968738

1 changed files with 13 additions and 22 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

35

fs/ext4/inode.c

View file