1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index f95ee99091e4..9652a0eadd1c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -712,21 +712,34 @@ out:
 static int find_inode_bit(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group,
 			  struct buffer_head *bitmap, unsigned long *ino)
 {
+	bool check_recently_deleted = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal == NULL;
+	unsigned long recently_deleted_ino = EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb);
+
 next:
 	*ino = ext4_find_next_zero_bit((unsigned long *)
 				       bitmap->b_data,
 				       EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb), *ino);
 	if (*ino >= EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))
-		return 0;
+		goto not_found;
 
-	if ((EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal == NULL) &&
-	    recently_deleted(sb, group, *ino)) {
+	if (check_recently_deleted && recently_deleted(sb, group, *ino)) {
+		recently_deleted_ino = *ino;
 		*ino = *ino + 1;
 		if (*ino < EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))
 			goto next;
-		return 0;
+		goto not_found;
 	}
-
+	return 1;
+not_found:
+	if (recently_deleted_ino >= EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb))
+		return 0;
+	/*
+	 * Not reusing recently deleted inodes is mostly a preference. We don't
+	 * want to report ENOSPC or skew allocation patterns because of that.
+	 * So return even recently deleted inode if we could find better in the
+	 * given range.
+	 */
+	*ino = recently_deleted_ino;
 	return 1;
 }