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    ext4: fix i_blocks/quota accounting when extent insertion fails · 7132de74
    Maxim Patlasov authored
    The current implementation of ext4_free_blocks() always calls
    dquot_free_block This looks quite sensible in the most cases: blocks
    to be freed are associated with inode and were accounted in quota and
    i_blocks some time ago.
    
    However, there is a case when blocks to free were not accounted by the
    time calling ext4_free_blocks() yet:
    
    1. delalloc is on, write_begin pre-allocated some space in quota
    2. write-back happens, ext4 allocates some blocks in ext4_ext_map_blocks()
    3. then ext4_ext_map_blocks() gets an error (e.g.  ENOSPC) from
       ext4_ext_insert_extent() and calls ext4_free_blocks().
    
    In this scenario, ext4_free_blocks() calls dquot_free_block() who, in
    turn, decrements i_blocks for blocks which were not accounted yet (due
    to delalloc) After clean umount, e2fsck reports something like:
    
    > Inode 21, i_blocks is 5080, should be 5128.  Fix<y>?
    because i_blocks was erroneously decremented as explained above.
    
    The patch fixes the problem by passing the new flag
    EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_NO_QUOT_UPDATE to ext4_free_blocks(), to request
    that the dquot_free_block() call be skipped.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxim Patlasov <maxim.patlasov@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    7132de74
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