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

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From: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>

commit c5c7b8ddfbf8cb3b2291e515a34ab1b8982f5a2d upstream.

Error recovery in ext4_alloc_branch() calls ext4_forget() even for
buffer corresponding to indirect block it did not allocate. This leads
to brelse() being called twice for that buffer (once from ext4_forget()
and once from cleanup in ext4_ind_map_blocks()) leading to buffer use
count misaccounting. Eventually (but often much later because there
are other users of the buffer) we will see messages like:
VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer

Another manifestation of this problem is an error:
JBD2 unexpected failure: jbd2_journal_revoke: !buffer_revoked(bh);
inconsistent data on disk

The fix is easy - don't forget buffer we did not allocate. Also add an
explanatory comment because the indexing at ext4_alloc_branch() is
somewhat subtle.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/indirect.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/indirect.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
@@ -390,7 +390,13 @@ static int ext4_alloc_branch(handle_t *h
        return 0;
 failed:
        for (; i >= 0; i--) {
-               if (i != indirect_blks && branch[i].bh)
+               /*
+                * We want to ext4_forget() only freshly allocated indirect
+                * blocks.  Buffer for new_blocks[i-1] is at branch[i].bh and
+                * buffer at branch[0].bh is indirect block / inode already
+                * existing before ext4_alloc_branch() was called.
+                */
+               if (i > 0 && i != indirect_blks && branch[i].bh)
                        ext4_forget(handle, 1, inode, branch[i].bh,
                                    branch[i].bh->b_blocknr);
                ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, NULL, new_blocks[i],


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