From b5451f7b2694b04d9f912f6cf09db1729f291996 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:00:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix potential inode allocation soft lockup in Orlov allocator If the Orlov allocator is having trouble finding an appropriate block group, the fallback code could loop forever, causing a soft lockup warning in find_group_orlov(): BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [cp:11728] ... Pid: 11728, comm: cp Not tainted (2.6.30-rc1-dirty #77) Lenovo EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0 EIP is at ext4_get_group_desc+0x54/0x9d ... Call Trace: [] find_group_orlov+0x2ee/0x334 [] ? sched_clock+0x8/0xb [] ext4_new_inode+0x2cf/0xb1a Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c index cbce5aa6b927..f18e0a08a6b5 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ static int find_group_orlov(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *parent, fallback: ngroups = sbi->s_groups_count; avefreei = freei / ngroups; +fallback_retry: parent_group = EXT4_I(parent)->i_block_group; for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) { grp = (parent_group + i) % ngroups; @@ -602,7 +603,7 @@ fallback: * filesystems the above test can fail to find any blockgroups */ avefreei = 0; - goto fallback; + goto fallback_retry; } return -1; -- 2.39.5