3.13.11.7 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>

commit 86f0afd463215fc3e58020493482faa4ac3a4d69 upstream.

If there is a failure while allocating the preallocation structure, a
number of blocks can end up getting marked in the in-memory buddy
bitmap, and then not getting released.  This can result in the
following corruption getting reported by the kernel:

EXT4-fs error (device sda3): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:758: group 1126,
12793 clusters in bitmap, 12729 in gd

In that case, we need to release the blocks using mb_free_blocks().

Tested: fs smoke test; also demonstrated that with injected errors,
        the file system is no longer getting corrupted

Google-Bug-Id: 16657874

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <ka...@canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 502f0fd..795d5af 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -3196,8 +3196,27 @@ static void ext4_mb_collect_stats(struct 
ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 static void ext4_discard_allocated_blocks(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 {
        struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa = ac->ac_pa;
+       struct ext4_buddy e4b;
+       int err;
 
-       if (pa && pa->pa_type == MB_INODE_PA)
+       if (pa == NULL) {
+               err = ext4_mb_load_buddy(ac->ac_sb, ac->ac_f_ex.fe_group, &e4b);
+               if (err) {
+                       /*
+                        * This should never happen since we pin the
+                        * pages in the ext4_allocation_context so
+                        * ext4_mb_load_buddy() should never fail.
+                        */
+                       WARN(1, "mb_load_buddy failed (%d)", err);
+                       return;
+               }
+               ext4_lock_group(ac->ac_sb, ac->ac_f_ex.fe_group);
+               mb_free_blocks(ac->ac_inode, &e4b, ac->ac_f_ex.fe_start,
+                              ac->ac_f_ex.fe_len);
+               ext4_unlock_group(ac->ac_sb, ac->ac_f_ex.fe_group);
+               return;
+       }
+       if (pa->pa_type == MB_INODE_PA)
                pa->pa_free += ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1

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