Commit 823f7ea9 authored by Lachlan McIlroy's avatar Lachlan McIlroy Committed by Paul Gortmaker
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ext4: limit group search loop for non-extent files



commit e6155736 upstream.

In the case where we are allocating for a non-extent file,
we must limit the groups we allocate from to those below
2^32 blocks, and ext4_mb_regular_allocator() attempts to
do this initially by putting a cap on ngroups for the
subsequent search loop.

However, the initial target group comes in from the
allocation context (ac), and it may already be beyond
the artificially limited ngroups.  In this case,
the limit

	if (group == ngroups)
		group = 0;

at the top of the loop is never true, and the loop will
run away.

Catch this case inside the loop and reset the search to
start at group 0.

[sandeen@redhat.com: add commit msg & comments]

Signed-off-by: default avatarLachlan McIlroy <lmcilroy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
parent 1adc9064
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