ext4: mballoc: add blocks to PA list under same spinlock after allocating blocks
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.comSigned-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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