ext2's inode allocator will call find_group_orlov(), which will return a
suitable blockgroup in which the inode should be allocated.  But by the time
we actually try to allocate an inode in the blockgroup, other CPUs could have
used them all up.

ext2 will bogusly fail with "ext2_new_inode: Free inodes count corrupted in
group NN".


To fix this we just advance onto the next blockgroup if the rare race
happens.  If we've scanned all blockgroups then return -ENOSPC.


(This is a bit inaccurate: after we've scanned all blockgroups, there may
still be available inodes due to inode freeing activity in other blockgroups.
 This cannot be fixed without fs-wide locking.  The effect is a slightly
early ENOSPC in a nearly-full filesystem).



 fs/ext2/ialloc.c |   87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/ext2/ialloc.c~ext2_new_inode-race-fix fs/ext2/ialloc.c
--- 25/fs/ext2/ialloc.c~ext2_new_inode-race-fix	2003-06-30 20:42:09.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/fs/ext2/ialloc.c	2003-06-30 21:10:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -489,17 +489,18 @@ found:
 	return group;
 }
 
-struct inode * ext2_new_inode(struct inode * dir, int mode)
+struct inode *ext2_new_inode(struct inode *dir, int mode)
 {
 	struct super_block *sb;
 	struct buffer_head *bitmap_bh = NULL;
 	struct buffer_head *bh2;
 	int group, i;
-	ino_t ino;
+	ino_t ino = 0;
 	struct inode * inode;
-	struct ext2_group_desc * desc;
-	struct ext2_super_block * es;
+	struct ext2_group_desc *gdp;
+	struct ext2_super_block *es;
 	struct ext2_inode_info *ei;
+	struct ext2_sb_info *sbi;
 	int err;
 
 	sb = dir->i_sb;
@@ -508,36 +509,62 @@ struct inode * ext2_new_inode(struct ino
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	ei = EXT2_I(inode);
-	es = EXT2_SB(sb)->s_es;
+	sbi = EXT2_SB(sb);
+	es = sbi->s_es;
 repeat:
 	if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
-		if (test_opt (sb, OLDALLOC))
+		if (test_opt(sb, OLDALLOC))
 			group = find_group_dir(sb, dir);
 		else
 			group = find_group_orlov(sb, dir);
 	} else 
 		group = find_group_other(sb, dir);
 
-	err = -ENOSPC;
-	if (group == -1)
+	if (group == -1) {
+		err = -ENOSPC;
 		goto fail;
+	}
 
-	err = -EIO;
-	bitmap_bh = read_inode_bitmap(sb, group);
-	if (!bitmap_bh)
-		goto fail2;
-
-	i = ext2_find_first_zero_bit((unsigned long *)bitmap_bh->b_data,
-				      EXT2_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb));
-	if (i >= EXT2_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))
-		goto bad_count;
-	if (ext2_set_bit_atomic(sb_bgl_lock(EXT2_SB(sb), group),
-			i, (void *) bitmap_bh->b_data)) {
+	for (i = 0; i < sbi->s_groups_count; i++) {
+		gdp = ext2_get_group_desc(sb, group, &bh2);
 		brelse(bitmap_bh);
-		ext2_release_inode(sb, group, S_ISDIR(mode));
-		goto repeat;
+		bitmap_bh = read_inode_bitmap(sb, group);
+		if (!bitmap_bh) {
+			err = -EIO;
+			goto fail2;
+		}
+
+		i = ext2_find_first_zero_bit((unsigned long *)bitmap_bh->b_data,
+					      EXT2_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb));
+		if (i >= EXT2_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb)) {
+			/*
+			 * Rare race: find_group_xx() decided that there were
+			 * free inodes in this group, but by the time we tried
+			 * to allocate one, they're all gone.  This can also
+			 * occur because the counters which find_group_orlov()
+			 * uses are approximate.  So just go and search the
+			 * next block group.
+			 */
+			if (++group == sbi->s_groups_count)
+				group = 0;
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (ext2_set_bit_atomic(sb_bgl_lock(EXT2_SB(sb), group),
+						i, bitmap_bh->b_data)) {
+			brelse(bitmap_bh);
+			bitmap_bh = NULL;
+			ext2_release_inode(sb, group, S_ISDIR(mode));
+			goto repeat;
+		}
+		goto got;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Scanned all blockgroups.
+	 */
+	err = -ENOSPC;
+	goto fail2;
+got:
 	mark_buffer_dirty(bitmap_bh);
 	if (sb->s_flags & MS_SYNCHRONOUS)
 		sync_dirty_buffer(bitmap_bh);
@@ -605,8 +632,9 @@ repeat:
 	inode->i_generation = EXT2_SB(sb)->s_next_generation++;
 	insert_inode_hash(inode);
 
-	if(DQUOT_ALLOC_INODE(inode)) {
+	if (DQUOT_ALLOC_INODE(inode)) {
 		DQUOT_DROP(inode);
+		err = -ENOSPC;
 		goto fail3;
 	}
 	err = ext2_init_acl(inode, dir);
@@ -631,21 +659,6 @@ fail:
 	make_bad_inode(inode);
 	iput(inode);
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
-
-bad_count:
-	brelse(bitmap_bh);
-	ext2_error (sb, "ext2_new_inode",
-		    "Free inodes count corrupted in group %d",
-		    group);
-	/* Is it really ENOSPC? */
-	err = -ENOSPC;
-	if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
-		goto fail;
-
-	desc = ext2_get_group_desc (sb, group, &bh2);
-	desc->bg_free_inodes_count = 0;
-	mark_buffer_dirty(bh2);
-	goto repeat;
 }
 
 unsigned long ext2_count_free_inodes (struct super_block * sb)

_