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ext4: if zeroout fails fall back to splitting the extent node
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:20:48 +0000 (11:20 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:36:50 +0000 (23:36 -0400)
commit308c57ccf4318236be75dfa251c84713e694457b
treef1edca98a6d0fba76520db7a234e73edd8484836
parentfacec450a8243cd3310ff8a8b9bb2f71d35df9e9
ext4: if zeroout fails fall back to splitting the extent node

If the underlying storage device is using thin-provisioning, it's
possible for a zeroout operation to return ENOSPC.

Commit df22291ff0fd ("ext4: Retry block allocation if we have free blocks
left") added logic to retry block allocation since we might get free block
after we commit a transaction. But the ENOSPC from thin-provisioning
will confuse ext4, and lead to an infinite loop.

Since using zeroout instead of splitting the extent node is an
optimization, if it fails, we might as well fall back to splitting the
extent node.

Reported-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/extents.c