ext4: Init the complete page while building buddy cache From: Aneesh Kumar K.V We need to init the complete page during buddy cache init by setting the contents to '1'. Otherwise we can see the following errors after doing an online resize of the filesystem: EXT4-fs error (device sdb1): ext4_mb_mark_diskspace_used: Allocating block 1040385 in system zone of 127 group Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@kernel.org --- V3 changes: We don't need to do a memset when updating buddy cache since we do a complete init of the page. fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index d1ba97d..bacc2f4 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -846,6 +846,8 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore) err = 0; first_block = page->index * blocks_per_page; + /* init the page */ + memset(page_address(page), 0xff, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); for (i = 0; i < blocks_per_page; i++) { int group; struct ext4_group_info *grinfo; @@ -872,7 +874,6 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore) BUG_ON(incore == NULL); mb_debug("put buddy for group %u in page %lu/%x\n", group, page->index, i * blocksize); - memset(data, 0xff, blocksize); grinfo = ext4_get_group_info(sb, group); grinfo->bb_fragments = 0; memset(grinfo->bb_counters, 0,