ext4: fix checksum errors with indexed dirs

DIR_INDEX has been introduced as a compat ext4 feature. That means that
even kernels / tools that don't understand the feature may modify the

ext4: fix checksum errors with indexed dirs

DIR_INDEX has been introduced as a compat ext4 feature. That means that
even kernels / tools that don't understand the feature may modify the
filesystem. This works because for kernels not understanding indexed dir
format, internal htree nodes appear just as empty directory entries.
Index dir aware kernels then check the htree structure is still
consistent before using the data. This all worked reasonably well until
metadata checksums were introduced. The problem is that these
effectively made DIR_INDEX only ro-compatible because internal htree
nodes store checksums in a different place than normal directory blocks.
Thus any modification ignorant to DIR_INDEX (or just clearing
EXT4_INDEX_FL from the inode) will effectively cause checksum mismatch
and trigger kernel errors. So we have to be more careful when dealing
with indexed directories on filesystems with checksumming enabled.

1) We just disallow loading any directory inodes with EXT4_INDEX_FL when
DIR_INDEX is not enabled. This is harsh but it should be very rare (it
means someone disabled DIR_INDEX on existing filesystem and didn't run
e2fsck), e2fsck can fix the problem, and we don't want to answer the
difficult question: "Should we rather corrupt the directory more or
should we ignore that DIR_INDEX feature is not set?"

2) When we find out htree structure is corrupted (but the filesystem and
the directory should in support htrees), we continue just ignoring htree
information for reading but we refuse to add new entries to the
directory to avoid corrupting it more.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200210144316.22081-1-jack@suse.cz
Fixes: dbe89444042a ("ext4: Calculate and verify checksums for htree nodes")
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

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ext4: drop ext4_kvmalloc()

As Jan pointed out[1], as of commit 81378da64de ("jbd2: mark the
transaction context with the scope GFP_NOFS context") we use
memalloc_nofs_{save,restore}(

ext4: drop ext4_kvmalloc()

As Jan pointed out[1], as of commit 81378da64de ("jbd2: mark the
transaction context with the scope GFP_NOFS context") we use
memalloc_nofs_{save,restore}() while a jbd2 handle is active. So
ext4_kvmalloc() so we can call allocate using GFP_NOFS is no longer
necessary.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200109100007.GC27035@quack2.suse.cz

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200116155031.266620-1-tytso@mit.edu
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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ext4: make some functions static in extents.c

Make the following functions static since they're only used in
extents.c:

__ext4_ext_dirty()
ext4_can_extents_b

ext4: make some functions static in extents.c

Make the following functions static since they're only used in
extents.c:

__ext4_ext_dirty()
ext4_can_extents_be_merged()
ext4_collapse_range()
ext4_insert_range()

Also remove the prototype for ext4_ext_writepage_trans_blocks(), as this
function is not defined anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191231180444.46586-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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ext4: remove ext4_{ind,ext}_calc_metadata_amount()

Remove the ext4_ind_calc_metadata_amount() and
ext4_ext_calc_metadata_amount() functions, which have been unused since
commit 71d4f

ext4: remove ext4_{ind,ext}_calc_metadata_amount()

Remove the ext4_ind_calc_metadata_amount() and
ext4_ext_calc_metadata_amount() functions, which have been unused since
commit 71d4f7d03214 ("ext4: remove metadata reservation checks").

Also remove the i_da_metadata_calc_last_lblock and
i_da_metadata_calc_len fields from struct ext4_inode_info, as these were
only used by these removed functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191231180444.46586-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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ext4: Delete ext4_kvzvalloc()

Since we're not using ext4_kvzalloc(), delete this function.

Signed-off-by: Naoto Kobayashi <naoto.kobayashi4c@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel

ext4: Delete ext4_kvzvalloc()

Since we're not using ext4_kvzalloc(), delete this function.

Signed-off-by: Naoto Kobayashi <naoto.kobayashi4c@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191227080523.31808-2-naoto.kobayashi4c@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Optimize ext4 DIO overwrites

Currently we start transaction for mapping every extent for writing
using direct IO. This is unnecessary when we know we are overwriting
already al

ext4: Optimize ext4 DIO overwrites

Currently we start transaction for mapping every extent for writing
using direct IO. This is unnecessary when we know we are overwriting
already allocated blocks and the overhead of starting a transaction can
be significant especially for multithreaded workloads doing small writes.
Use iomap operations that avoid starting a transaction for direct IO
overwrites.

This improves throughput of 4k random writes - fio jobfile:
[global]
rw=randrw
norandommap=1
invalidate=0
bs=4k
numjobs=16
time_based=1
ramp_time=30
runtime=120
group_reporting=1
ioengine=psync
direct=1
size=16G
filename=file1.0.0:file1.0.1:file1.0.2:file1.0.3:file1.0.4:file1.0.5:file1.0.6:file1.0.7:file1.0.8:file1.0.9:file1.0.10:file1.0.11:file1.0.12:file1.0.13:file1.0.14:file1.0.15:file1.0.16:file1.0.17:file1.0.18:file1.0.19:file1.0.20:file1.0.21:file1.0.22:file1.0.23:file1.0.24:file1.0.25:file1.0.26:file1.0.27:file1.0.28:file1.0.29:file1.0.30:file1.0.31
file_service_type=random
nrfiles=32

from 3018MB/s to 4059MB/s in my test VM running test against simulated
pmem device (note that before iomap conversion, this workload was able
to achieve 3708MB/s because old direct IO path avoided transaction start
for overwrites as well). For dax, the win is even larger improving
throughput from 3042MB/s to 4311MB/s.

Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218174433.19380-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: simulate various I/O and checksum errors when reading metadata

This allows us to test various error handling code paths

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191209012317.59398-1-

ext4: simulate various I/O and checksum errors when reading metadata

This allows us to test various error handling code paths

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191209012317.59398-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: save the error code which triggered an ext4_error() in the superblock

This allows the cause of an ext4_error() report to be categorized
based on whether it was triggered due to an

ext4: save the error code which triggered an ext4_error() in the superblock

This allows the cause of an ext4_error() report to be categorized
based on whether it was triggered due to an I/O error, or an memory
allocation error, or other possible causes. Most errors are caused by
a detected file system inconsistency, so the default code stored in
the superblock will be EXT4_ERR_EFSCORRUPTED.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191204032335.7683-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"This merge window saw the the following new featuers added to ex

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"This merge window saw the the following new featuers added to ext4:

- Direct I/O via iomap (required the iomap-for-next branch from
Darrick as a prereq).

- Support for using dioread-nolock where the block size < page size.

- Support for encryption for file systems where the block size < page
size.

- Rework of journal credits handling so a revoke-heavy workload will
not cause the journal to run out of space.

- Replace bit-spinlocks with spinlocks in jbd2

Also included were some bug fixes and cleanups, mostly to clean up
corner cases from fuzzed file systems and error path handling"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (59 commits)
ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely
ext4: add more paranoia checking in ext4_expand_extra_isize handling
jbd2: make jbd2_handle_buffer_credits() handle reserved handles
ext4: fix a bug in ext4_wait_for_tail_page_commit
ext4: bio_alloc with __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM never fails
ext4: code cleanup for get_next_id
ext4: fix leak of quota reservations
ext4: remove unused variable warning in parse_options()
ext4: Enable encryption for subpage-sized blocks
fs/buffer.c: support fscrypt in block_read_full_page()
ext4: Add error handling for io_end_vec struct allocation
jbd2: Fine tune estimate of necessary descriptor blocks
jbd2: Provide trace event for handle restarts
ext4: Reserve revoke credits for freed blocks
jbd2: Make credit checking more strict
jbd2: Rename h_buffer_credits to h_total_credits
jbd2: Reserve space for revoke descriptor blocks
jbd2: Drop jbd2_space_needed()
jbd2: Account descriptor blocks into t_outstanding_credits
jbd2: Factor out common parts of stopping and restarting a handle
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ext4: add support for IV_INO_LBLK_64 encryption policies

IV_INO_LBLK_64 encryption policies have special requirements from the
filesystem beyond those of the existing encryption policies

ext4: add support for IV_INO_LBLK_64 encryption policies

IV_INO_LBLK_64 encryption policies have special requirements from the
filesystem beyond those of the existing encryption policies:

- Inode numbers must never change, even if the filesystem is resized.
- Inode numbers must be <= 32 bits.
- File logical block numbers must be <= 32 bits.

ext4 has 32-bit inode and file logical block numbers. However,
resize2fs can re-number inodes when shrinking an ext4 filesystem.

However, typically the people who would want to use this format don't
care about filesystem shrinking. They'd be fine with a solution that
just prevents the filesystem from being shrunk.

Therefore, add a new feature flag EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_STABLE_INODES that
will do exactly that. Then wire up the fscrypt_operations to expose
this flag to fs/crypto/, so that it allows IV_INO_LBLK_64 policies when
this flag is set.

Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

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Merge branch 'mb/dio' into master

Merge branch 'jk/jbd2-revoke-overflow'

ext4: Reserve revoke credits for freed blocks

So far we have reserved only relatively high fixed amount of revoke
credits for each transaction. We over-reserved by large amount for most

ext4: Reserve revoke credits for freed blocks

So far we have reserved only relatively high fixed amount of revoke
credits for each transaction. We over-reserved by large amount for most
cases but when freeing large directories or files with data journalling,
the fixed amount is not enough. In fact the worst case estimate is
inconveniently large (maximum extent size) for freeing of one extent.

We fix this by doing proper estimate of the amount of blocks that need
to be revoked when removing blocks from the inode due to truncate or
hole punching and otherwise reserve just a small amount of revoke
credits for each transaction to accommodate freeing of xattrs block or
so.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105164437.32602-23-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Provide function to handle transaction restarts

Provide ext4_journal_ensure_credits_fn() function to ensure transaction
has given amount of credits and call helper function to prep

ext4: Provide function to handle transaction restarts

Provide ext4_journal_ensure_credits_fn() function to ensure transaction
has given amount of credits and call helper function to prepare for
restarting a transaction. This allows to remove some boilerplate code
from various places, add proper error handling for the case where
transaction extension or restart fails, and reduces following changes
needed for proper revoke record reservation tracking.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105164437.32602-10-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure

This patch introduces a new direct I/O write path which makes use of
the iomap infrastructure.

All direct I/O writes

ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure

This patch introduces a new direct I/O write path which makes use of
the iomap infrastructure.

All direct I/O writes are now passed from the ->write_iter() callback
through to the new direct I/O handler ext4_dio_write_iter(). This
function is responsible for calling into the iomap infrastructure via
iomap_dio_rw().

Code snippets from the existing direct I/O write code within
ext4_file_write_iter() such as, checking whether the I/O request is
unaligned asynchronous I/O, or whether the write will result in an
overwrite have effectively been moved out and into the new direct I/O
->write_iter() handler.
The block mapping flags that are eventually passed down to
ext4_map_blocks() from the *_get_block_*() suite of routines have been
taken out and introduced within ext4_iomap_alloc().

For inode extension cases, ext4_handle_inode_extension() is
effectively the function responsible for performing such metadata
updates. This is called after iomap_dio_rw() has returned so that we
can safely determine whether we need to potentially truncate any
allocated blocks that may have been prepared for this direct I/O
write. We don't perform the inode extension, or truncate operations
from the ->end_io() handler as we don't have the original I/O 'length'
available there. The ->end_io() however is responsible fo converting
allocated unwritten extents to written extents.

In the instance of a short write, we fallback and complete the
remainder of the I/O using buffered I/O via
ext4_buffered_write_iter().

The existing buffer_head direct I/O implementation has been removed as
it's now redundant.

[ Fix up ext4_dio_write_iter() per Jan's comments at
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105135932.GN22379@quack2.suse.cz -- TYT ]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e55db6f12ae6ff017f36774135e79f3e7b0333da.1572949325.git.mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: introduce new callback for IOMAP_REPORT

As part of the ext4_iomap_begin() cleanups that precede this patch, we
also split up the IOMAP_REPORT branch into a completely separate

ext4: introduce new callback for IOMAP_REPORT

As part of the ext4_iomap_begin() cleanups that precede this patch, we
also split up the IOMAP_REPORT branch into a completely separate
->iomap_begin() callback named ext4_iomap_begin_report(). Again, the
raionale for this change is to reduce the overall clutter within
ext4_iomap_begin().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5c97a569e26ddb6696e3d3ac9fbde41317e029a0.1572949325.git.mbobrowski@mbobrowski.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Add support for blocksize < pagesize in dioread_nolock

This patch adds the support for blocksize < pagesize for
dioread_nolock feature.

Since in case of blocksize < pagesi

ext4: Add support for blocksize < pagesize in dioread_nolock

This patch adds the support for blocksize < pagesize for
dioread_nolock feature.

Since in case of blocksize < pagesize, we can have multiple
small buffers of page as unwritten extents, we need to
maintain a vector of these unwritten extents which needs
the conversion after the IO is complete. Thus, we maintain
a list of tuple <offset, size> pair (io_end_vec) for this &
traverse this list to do the unwritten to written conversion.

Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191016073711.4141-5-riteshh@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: Add API to bring in support for unwritten io_end_vec conversion

This patch just brings in the API for conversion of unwritten io_end_vec
extents which will be required for blocksiz

ext4: Add API to bring in support for unwritten io_end_vec conversion

This patch just brings in the API for conversion of unwritten io_end_vec
extents which will be required for blocksize < pagesize support
for dioread_nolock feature.

No functional changes in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191016073711.4141-3-riteshh@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get inform

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information
about the state of the extent status cache.

Dropped workaround for pre-1970 dates which were encoded incorrectly
in pre-4.4 kernels. Since both the kernel correctly generates, and
e2fsck detects and fixes this issue for the past four years, it'e time
to drop the workaround. (Also, it's not like files with dates in the
distant past were all that common in the first place.)

A lot of miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups, including some ext4
Documentation fixes. Also included are two minor bug fixes in
fs/unicode"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (21 commits)
unicode: make array 'token' static const, makes object smaller
unicode: Move static keyword to the front of declarations
ext4: add missing bigalloc documentation.
ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag
ext4: fix integer overflow when calculating commit interval
ext4: use percpu_counters for extent_status cache hits/misses
ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity
jbd2: add missing tracepoint for reserved handle
ext4: fix punch hole for inline_data file systems
ext4: rework reserved cluster accounting when invalidating pages
ext4: documentation fixes
ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data
ext4: fix warning inside ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio
ext4: set error return correctly when ext4_htree_store_dirent fails
ext4: drop legacy pre-1970 encoding workaround
ext4: add new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GET_ES_CACHE
ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE
ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE
jbd2: flush_descriptor(): Do not decrease buffer head's ref count
ext4: remove unnecessary error check
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Merge tag 'y2038-vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground

Pull y2038 vfs updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"Add inode timestamp clamping.

This series f

Merge tag 'y2038-vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground

Pull y2038 vfs updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"Add inode timestamp clamping.

This series from Deepa Dinamani adds a per-superblock minimum/maximum
timestamp limit for a file system, and clamps timestamps as they are
written, to avoid random behavior from integer overflow as well as
having different time stamps on disk vs in memory.

At mount time, a warning is now printed for any file system that can
represent current timestamps but not future timestamps more than 30
years into the future, similar to the arbitrary 30 year limit that was
added to settimeofday().

This was picked as a compromise to warn users to migrate to other file
systems (e.g. ext4 instead of ext3) when they need the file system to
survive beyond 2038 (or similar limits in other file systems), but not
get in the way of normal usage"

* tag 'y2038-vfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground:
ext4: Reduce ext4 timestamp warnings
isofs: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
pstore: fs superblock limits
fs: omfs: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
fs: hpfs: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
fs: ceph: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
fs: sysv: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
fs: affs: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
fs: fat: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
fs: cifs: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
fs: nfs: Initialize filesystem timestamp ranges
ext4: Initialize timestamps limits
9p: Fill min and max timestamps in sb
fs: Fill in max and min timestamps in superblock
utimes: Clamp the timestamps before update
mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp expiry
timestamp_truncate: Replace users of timespec64_trunc
vfs: Add timestamp_truncate() api
vfs: Add file timestamp range support

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ext4: Reduce ext4 timestamp warnings

When ext4 file systems were created intentionally with 128 byte inodes,
the rate-limited warning of eventual possible timestamp overflow are
stil

ext4: Reduce ext4 timestamp warnings

When ext4 file systems were created intentionally with 128 byte inodes,
the rate-limited warning of eventual possible timestamp overflow are
still emitted rather frequently. Remove the warning for now.

Discussion for whether any warning is needed,
and where it should be emitted, can be found at
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1567523922.5576.57.camel@lca.pw/.
I can post a separate follow-up patch after the conclusion.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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ext4: Initialize timestamps limits

ext4 has different overflow limits for max filesystem
timestamps based on the extra bytes available.

The timestamp limits are calculated accor

ext4: Initialize timestamps limits

ext4 has different overflow limits for max filesystem
timestamps based on the extra bytes available.

The timestamp limits are calculated according to the
encoding table in
a4dad1ae24f85i(ext4: Fix handling of extended tv_sec):

* extra msb of adjust for signed
* epoch 32-bit 32-bit tv_sec to
* bits time decoded 64-bit tv_sec 64-bit tv_sec valid time range
* 0 0 1 -0x80000000..-0x00000001 0x000000000 1901-12-13..1969-12-31
* 0 0 0 0x000000000..0x07fffffff 0x000000000 1970-01-01..2038-01-19
* 0 1 1 0x080000000..0x0ffffffff 0x100000000 2038-01-19..2106-02-07
* 0 1 0 0x100000000..0x17fffffff 0x100000000 2106-02-07..2174-02-25
* 1 0 1 0x180000000..0x1ffffffff 0x200000000 2174-02-25..2242-03-16
* 1 0 0 0x200000000..0x27fffffff 0x200000000 2242-03-16..2310-04-04
* 1 1 1 0x280000000..0x2ffffffff 0x300000000 2310-04-04..2378-04-22
* 1 1 0 0x300000000..0x37fffffff 0x300000000 2378-04-22..2446-05-10

Note that the time limits are not correct for deletion times.

Added a warn when an inode cannot be extended to incorporate an
extended timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org

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ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity

Remount process will release system zone which was allocated before if
"noblock_validity" is specified. If we mo

ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity

Remount process will release system zone which was allocated before if
"noblock_validity" is specified. If we mount an ext4 file system to two
mountpoints with default mount options, and then remount one of them
with "noblock_validity", it may trigger a use after free problem when
someone accessing the other one.

# mount /dev/sda foo
# mount /dev/sda bar

User access mountpoint "foo" | Remount mountpoint "bar"
|
ext4_map_blocks() | ext4_remount()
check_block_validity() | ext4_setup_system_zone()
ext4_data_block_valid() | ext4_release_system_zone()
| free system_blks rb nodes
access system_blks rb nodes |
trigger use after free |

This problem can also be reproduced by one mountpint, At the same time,
add_system_zone() can get called during remount as well so there can be
racing ext4_data_block_valid() reading the rbtree at the same time.

This patch add RCU to protect system zone from releasing or building
when doing a remount which inverse current "noblock_validity" mount
option. It assign the rbtree after the whole tree was complete and
do actual freeing after rcu grace period, avoid any intermediate state.

Reported-by: syzbot+1e470567330b7ad711d5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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ext4: rework reserved cluster accounting when invalidating pages

The goal of this patch is to remove two references to the buffer delay
bit in ext4_da_page_release_reservation() as part

ext4: rework reserved cluster accounting when invalidating pages

The goal of this patch is to remove two references to the buffer delay
bit in ext4_da_page_release_reservation() as part of a larger effort
to remove all such references from ext4. These two references are
principally used to reduce the reserved block/cluster count when pages
are invalidated as a result of truncating, punching holes, or
collapsing a block range in a file. The entire function is removed
and replaced with code in ext4_es_remove_extent() that reduces the
reserved count as a side effect of removing a block range from delayed
and not unwritten extents in the extent status tree as is done when
truncating, punching holes, or collapsing ranges.

The code is written to minimize the number of searches descending from
rb tree roots for scalability.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data

I got some errors when I repair an ext4 volume which stacked by an
iscsi target:
Entry 'test60' in / (2) has delete

ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data

I got some errors when I repair an ext4 volume which stacked by an
iscsi target:
Entry 'test60' in / (2) has deleted/unused inode 73750. Clear?
It can be reproduced when the network not good enough.

When I debug this I found ext4 will read entry buffer from disk and
the buffer is marked with write_io_error.

If the buffer is marked with write_io_error, it means it already
wroten to journal, and not checked out to disk. IOW, the journal
is newer than the data in disk.
If this journal record 'delete test60', it means the 'test60' still
on the disk metadata.

In this case, if we read the buffer from disk successfully and create
file continue, the new journal record will overwrite the journal
which record 'delete test60', then the entry corruptioned.

So, use the buffer rather than read from disk if the buffer is marked
with write_io_error.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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