ext4: drop the call to ext4_error() from ext4_get_group_info()

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A recent patch added a call to ext4_error() which is problematic since
some callers of the ext4_get_group_info() function may be holding a
spinlock, whereas ext4_error() must never be called in atomic context.

This triggered a report from Syzbot: "BUG: sleeping function called from
invalid context in ext4_update_super" (see the link below).

Therefore, drop the call to ext4_error() from ext4_get_group_info(). In
the meantime use eight characters tabs instead of nine characters ones.

Reported-by: syzbot+4acc7d910e617b360859@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000070575805fdc6cdb2@google.com/
Fixes: 5354b2af34 ("ext4: allow ext4_get_group_info() to fail")
Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614100446.14337-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Fabio M. De Francesco 2023-06-14 12:02:55 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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