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Brian Foster 5ee8005f72 xfs: set max_agbno to allow sparse alloc of last full inode chunk 
commit c360004c01 upstream.

Sparse inode cluster allocation sets min/max agbno values to avoid
allocating an inode cluster that might map to an invalid inode
chunk. For example, we can't have an inode record mapped to agbno 0
or that extends past the end of a runt AG of misaligned size.

The initial calculation of max_agbno is unnecessarily conservative,
however. This has triggered a corner case allocation failure where a
small runt AG (i.e. 2063 blocks) is mostly full save for an extent
to the EOFS boundary: [2050,13]. max_agbno is set to 2048 in this
case, which happens to be the offset of the last possible valid
inode chunk in the AG. In practice, we should be able to allocate
the 4-block cluster at agbno 2052 to map to the parent inode record
at agbno 2048, but the max_agbno value precludes it.

Note that this can result in filesystem shutdown via dirty trans
cancel on stable kernels prior to commit 9eb775968b ("xfs: walk
all AGs if TRYLOCK passed to xfs_alloc_vextent_iterate_ags") because
the tail AG selection by the allocator sets t_highest_agno on the
transaction. If the inode allocator spins around and finds an inode
chunk with free inodes in an earlier AG, the subsequent dir name
creation path may still fail to allocate due to the AG restriction
and cancel.

To avoid this problem, update the max_agbno calculation to the agbno
prior to the last chunk aligned agbno in the AG. This is not
necessarily the last valid allocation target for a sparse chunk, but
since inode chunks (i.e. records) are chunk aligned and sparse
allocs are cluster sized/aligned, this allows the sb_spino_align
alignment restriction to take over and round down the max effective
agbno to within the last valid inode chunk in the AG.

Note that even though the allocator improvements in the
aforementioned commit seem to avoid this particular dirty trans
cancel situation, the max_agbno logic improvement still applies as
we should be able to allocate from an AG that has been appropriately
selected. The more important target for this patch however are
older/stable kernels prior to this allocator rework/improvement.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2
Fixes: 56d1115c9b ("xfs: allocate sparse inode chunks on full chunk allocation failure")
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-01-23 11:18:50 +01:00
arch LoongArch: dts: loongson-2k2000: Add default interrupt controller address cells 2026-01-23 11:18:48 +01:00
block block: fix NULL pointer dereference in blk_zone_reset_all_bio_endio() 2026-01-08 10:15:06 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: seqiv - Do not use req->iv after crypto_aead_encrypt 2026-01-08 10:14:32 +01:00
Documentation soundwire: stream: extend sdw_alloc_stream() to take 'type' parameter 2026-01-08 10:15:04 +01:00
drivers HID: intel-ish-hid: Fix -Wcast-function-type-strict in devm_ishtp_alloc_workqueue() 2026-01-23 11:18:50 +01:00
fs xfs: set max_agbno to allow sparse alloc of last full inode chunk 2026-01-23 11:18:50 +01:00
include HID: intel-ish-hid: Use dedicated unbound workqueues to prevent resume blocking 2026-01-23 11:18:50 +01:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:33:50 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: move local task_work in exit cancel loop 2026-01-23 11:18:42 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel hrtimer: Fix softirq base check in update_needs_ipi() 2026-01-23 11:18:45 +01:00
lib lib/buildid: use __kernel_read() for sleepable context 2026-01-23 11:18:43 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/damon/sysfs: cleanup attrs subdirs on context dir setup failure 2026-01-23 11:18:47 +01:00
net net: can: j1939: j1939_xtp_rx_rts_session_active(): deactivate session upon receiving the second rts 2026-01-23 11:18:43 +01:00
rust rust: kbuild: workaround rustdoc doctests modifier bug 2025-11-24 10:36:07 +01:00
samples samples/ftrace: Adjust LoongArch register restore order in direct calls 2026-01-08 10:14:50 +01:00
scripts kbuild: fix compilation of dtb specified on command-line without make rule 2026-01-08 10:14:34 +01:00
security tpm2-sessions: Fix out of range indexing in name_size 2026-01-17 16:31:29 +01:00
sound ASoC: codecs: wsa881x: fix unnecessary initialisation 2026-01-23 11:18:45 +01:00
tools selftests/landlock: Properly close a file descriptor 2026-01-23 11:18:41 +01:00
usr kbuild: uapi: Strip comments before size type check 2025-11-13 15:34:35 -05:00
virt KVM: Disallow toggling KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD on an existing memslot 2026-01-08 10:14:21 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 2025-12-07 06:25:02 +09:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.66 2026-01-17 16:31:30 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.