From 79b592e8f1b435796cbc2722190368e3e8ffd7a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Yi Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:32:39 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: drop extent cache when splitting extent fails When the split extent fails, we might leave some extents still being processed and return an error directly, which will result in stale extent entries remaining in the extent status tree. So drop all of the remaining potentially stale extents if the splitting fails. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Cc: stable@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo Message-ID: <20251129103247.686136-8-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 1094e49234513..945995d68c4d3 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -3267,7 +3267,7 @@ static struct ext4_ext_path *ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle, err = PTR_ERR(path); if (err != -ENOSPC && err != -EDQUOT && err != -ENOMEM) - return path; + goto out_path; /* * Get a new path to try to zeroout or fix the extent length. @@ -3281,7 +3281,7 @@ static struct ext4_ext_path *ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle, if (IS_ERR(path)) { EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, "Failed split extent on %u, err %ld", split, PTR_ERR(path)); - return path; + goto out_path; } depth = ext_depth(inode); ex = path[depth].p_ext; @@ -3358,6 +3358,10 @@ out: ext4_free_ext_path(path); path = ERR_PTR(err); } +out_path: + if (IS_ERR(path)) + /* Remove all remaining potentially stale extents. */ + ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, ee_block, ee_len); ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode, path); return path; } -- 2.47.3