tolerate running out of disk blocks

kernel/fs.c

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ bzero(int dev, int bno)
 // Blocks.
 
 // Allocate a zeroed disk block.
+// returns 0 if out of disk space.
 static uint
 balloc(uint dev)
 {
@@ -82,7 +83,8 @@ balloc(uint dev)
     }
     brelse(bp);
   }
-  panic("balloc: out of blocks");
+  printf("balloc: out of blocks\n");
+  return 0;
 }
 
 // Free a disk block.
@@ -109,8 +111,8 @@ bfree(int dev, uint b)
 // its size, the number of links referring to it, and the
 // list of blocks holding the file's content.
 //
-// The inodes are laid out sequentially on disk at
-// sb.startinode. Each inode has a number, indicating its
+// The inodes are laid out sequentially on disk at block
+// sb.inodestart. Each inode has a number, indicating its
 // position on the disk.
 //
 // The kernel keeps a table of in-use inodes in memory
@@ -374,6 +376,7 @@ iunlockput(struct inode *ip)
 
 // Return the disk block address of the nth block in inode ip.
 // If there is no such block, bmap allocates one.
+// returns 0 if out of disk space.
 static uint
 bmap(struct inode *ip, uint bn)
 {
@@ -381,21 +384,32 @@ bmap(struct inode *ip, uint bn)
   struct buf *bp;
 
   if(bn < NDIRECT){
-    if((addr = ip->addrs[bn]) == 0)
-      ip->addrs[bn] = addr = balloc(ip->dev);
+    if((addr = ip->addrs[bn]) == 0){
+      addr = balloc(ip->dev);
+      if(addr == 0)
+        return 0;
+      ip->addrs[bn] = addr;
+    }
     return addr;
   }
   bn -= NDIRECT;
 
   if(bn < NINDIRECT){
     // Load indirect block, allocating if necessary.
-    if((addr = ip->addrs[NDIRECT]) == 0)
-      ip->addrs[NDIRECT] = addr = balloc(ip->dev);
+    if((addr = ip->addrs[NDIRECT]) == 0){
+      addr = balloc(ip->dev);
+      if(addr == 0)
+        return 0;
+      ip->addrs[NDIRECT] = addr;
+    }
     bp = bread(ip->dev, addr);
     a = (uint*)bp->data;
     if((addr = a[bn]) == 0){
-      a[bn] = addr = balloc(ip->dev);
-      log_write(bp);
+      addr = balloc(ip->dev);
+      if(addr){
+        a[bn] = addr;
+        log_write(bp);
+      }
     }
     brelse(bp);
     return addr;
@@ -464,7 +478,10 @@ readi(struct inode *ip, int user_dst, uint64 dst, uint off, uint n)
     n = ip->size - off;
 
   for(tot=0; tot<n; tot+=m, off+=m, dst+=m){
-    bp = bread(ip->dev, bmap(ip, off/BSIZE));
+    uint addr = bmap(ip, off/BSIZE);
+    if(addr == 0)
+      break;
+    bp = bread(ip->dev, addr);
     m = min(n - tot, BSIZE - off%BSIZE);
     if(either_copyout(user_dst, dst, bp->data + (off % BSIZE), m) == -1) {
       brelse(bp);
@@ -495,7 +512,10 @@ writei(struct inode *ip, int user_src, uint64 src, uint off, uint n)
     return -1;
 
   for(tot=0; tot<n; tot+=m, off+=m, src+=m){
-    bp = bread(ip->dev, bmap(ip, off/BSIZE));
+    uint addr = bmap(ip, off/BSIZE);
+    if(addr == 0)
+      break;
+    bp = bread(ip->dev, addr);
     m = min(n - tot, BSIZE - off%BSIZE);
     if(either_copyin(bp->data + (off % BSIZE), user_src, src, m) == -1) {
       brelse(bp);

user/usertests.c

@@ -2706,6 +2706,49 @@ execout(char *s)
   exit(0);
 }
 
+// can the kernel tolerate running out of disk space?
+void
+diskfull(char *s)
+{
+  int fi;
+  int done = 0;
+  
+  for(fi = 0; done == 0; fi++){
+    char name[32];
+    name[0] = 'b';
+    name[1] = 'i';
+    name[2] = 'g';
+    name[3] = '0' + fi;
+    name[4] = '\0';
+    unlink(name);
+    int fd = open(name, O_CREATE|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC);
+    if(fd < 0){
+      printf("%s: could not create file %s\n", s, name);
+      done = 1;
+      break;
+    }
+    for(int i = 0; i < MAXFILE; i++){
+      char buf[BSIZE];
+      if(write(fd, buf, BSIZE) != BSIZE){
+        done = 1;
+        close(fd);
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    close(fd);
+  }
+
+  for(int i = 0; i < fi; i++){
+    char name[32];
+    name[0] = 'b';
+    name[1] = 'i';
+    name[2] = 'g';
+    name[3] = '0' + i;
+    name[4] = '\0';
+    unlink(name);
+  }
+}
+
 //
 // use sbrk() to count how many free physical memory pages there are.
 // touches the pages to force allocation.
@@ -2818,7 +2861,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
     void (*f)(char *);
     char *s;
   } tests[] = {
-    {MAXVAplus, "MAXVAplus"},
+    {diskfull, "diskfull"},
     {manywrites, "manywrites"},
     {execout, "execout"},
     {copyin, "copyin"},
@@ -2880,6 +2923,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
     {dirfile, "dirfile"},
     {iref, "iref"},
     {forktest, "forktest"},
+    {MAXVAplus, "MAXVAplus"},
     {bigdir, "bigdir"}, // slow
     { 0, 0},
   };