ext4_mb_discard_preallocations() only checks for grp->bb_prealloc_list
of every group to discard the group's PA to free up the space if
allocation request fails. Consider below race:-
Process A Process B
1. allocate blocks
1. Fails block allocation from
ext4_mb_regular_allocator()
ext4_lock_group()
allocated blocks
more than ac_o_ex.fe_len
ext4_unlock_group()
2. Scans the
grp->bb_prealloc_list (under
ext4_lock_group()) and
find nothing and thus return
-ENOSPC.
2. Add the additional blocks to PA list
ext4_lock_group()
add blocks to grp->bb_prealloc_list
ext4_unlock_group()
Above race could be avoided if we add those additional blocks to
grp->bb_prealloc_list at the same time with block allocation when
ext4_lock_group() was still held.
With this discard-PA will know if there are actually any blocks which
could be freed from the PA
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a2217dd782585b42328981832e6d396abaaccb80.1589955723.git.riteshh@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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