[PATCH] ocfs2: free claimed clusters when defrag move fails

Guangshuo Li <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jul 2026 14:22:12 +0800
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ocfs2-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ocfs2_defrag_extent() claims new clusters before calling
__ocfs2_move_extent(). If __ocfs2_move_extent() fails, the newly claimed
clusters have not been attached to the inode extent tree, but the error
path only logs the error and continues.

The following ocfs2_cow_sync_writeback() call can then overwrite the
original error with 0, while the claimed clusters are left allocated and
unreferenced.

Set need_free and leave through out_commit when __ocfs2_move_extent()
fails, so the claimed clusters are released and the original error is
returned to the caller.

Fixes: 202ee5facb2c ("Ocfs2/move_extents: defrag a range of extent.")
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <[email protected]>
---
 fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
index ad1678ee7cc4..4f1745d58a88 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
@@ -310,8 +310,11 @@ static int ocfs2_defrag_extent(struct ocfs2_move_extents_context *context,
 
 	ret = __ocfs2_move_extent(handle, context, cpos, new_len, phys_cpos,
 				  new_phys_cpos, ext_flags);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
 		mlog_errno(ret);
+		need_free = 1;
+		goto out_commit;
+	}
 
 	if (partial && (new_len != *len))
 		*len = new_len;
-- 
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