Re: [PATCH] ext4: propagate errors from fast commit i_blocks replay

From: Jan Kara

Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 05:52:18 EST


On Mon 14-09-26 15:16:45, lty wrote:
> ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks() breaks out of its mapping loop when
> ext4_map_blocks() fails, but then continues with a partial block count
> and unconditionally returns success. The fast commit replay caller also
> ignores the helper return value.
>
> Stop the count immediately on mapping errors, leave i_blocks unchanged,
> and propagate the failure to abort inode replay.
>
> Fixes: 8016e29f4362 ("ext4: fast commit recovery path")
>
> Signed-off-by: lty <781735889@xxxxxx>

I guess this is fair but please propagate all errors from
ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks(). There are several other places in that
function doing things like:

path = ext4_find_extent(inode, cur, path, 0);
if (IS_ERR(path))
goto out;

which can return errors we should be propagating up.

Honza
> ---
> fs/ext4/extents.c | 4 ++--
> fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 7 +++++--
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> index 76038b6c3655..d67e30cf44ad 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
> @@ -6275,7 +6275,7 @@ int ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks(struct inode *inode)
> map.m_len = end - cur;
> ret = ext4_map_blocks(NULL, inode, &map, 0);
> if (ret < 0)
> - break;
> + goto cleanup;
> if (ret > 0)
> numblks += ret;
> cur = cur + map.m_len;
> @@ -6333,7 +6333,7 @@ int ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks(struct inode *inode)
> cleanup:
> ext4_free_ext_path(path);
> ext4_free_ext_path(path2);
> - return 0;
> + return ret;
> }
>
> int ext4_ext_clear_bb(struct inode *inode)
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
> index 0cac890cf370..8110b01e36c1 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
> @@ -2002,8 +2002,11 @@ static int ext4_fc_replay_inode(struct super_block *sb,
> * crashing. This should be fixed but until then, we calculate
> * the number of blocks the inode.
> */
> - if (!ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA))
> - ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks(inode);
> + if (!ext4_test_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA)) {
> + ret = ext4_ext_replay_set_iblocks(inode);
> + if (ret)
> + goto out_brelse;
> + }
>
> inode->i_generation = le32_to_cpu(ext4_raw_inode(&iloc)->i_generation);
> ext4_reset_inode_seed(inode);
>
> base-commit: 704340f1cd0dcef829eb62f5b48ae95a2ce17bdf
> --
> 2.34.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR