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Commit efed5b50 authored by Fabio M. De Francesco's avatar Fabio M. De Francesco Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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ext4: drop the call to ext4_error() from ext4_get_group_info()



[ Upstream commit f451fd97 ]

A recent patch added a call to ext4_error() which is problematic since
some callers of the ext4_get_group_info() function may be holding a
spinlock, whereas ext4_error() must never be called in atomic context.

This triggered a report from Syzbot: "BUG: sleeping function called from
invalid context in ext4_update_super" (see the link below).

Therefore, drop the call to ext4_error() from ext4_get_group_info(). In
the meantime use eight characters tabs instead of nine characters ones.

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+4acc7d910e617b360859@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000070575805fdc6cdb2@google.com/


Fixes: 5354b2af ("ext4: allow ext4_get_group_info() to fail")
Suggested-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614100446.14337-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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