Adding upstream version 6.1.76.upstream/6.1.76upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * This file is part of UBIFS.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Nokia Corporation.
+ *
+ * Authors: Adrian Hunter
+ *          Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This file implements the budgeting sub-system which is responsible for UBIFS
+ * space management.
+ *
+ * Factors such as compression, wasted space at the ends of LEBs, space in other
+ * journal heads, the effect of updates on the index, and so on, make it
+ * impossible to accurately predict the amount of space needed. Consequently
+ * approximations are used.
+ */
+
+#include "ubifs.h"
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
+#include <linux/math64.h>
+
+/*
+ * When pessimistic budget calculations say that there is no enough space,
+ * UBIFS starts writing back dirty inodes and pages, doing garbage collection,
+ * or committing. The below constant defines maximum number of times UBIFS
+ * repeats the operations.
+ */
+#define MAX_MKSPC_RETRIES 3
+
+/*
+ * The below constant defines amount of dirty pages which should be written
+ * back at when trying to shrink the liability.
+ */
+#define NR_TO_WRITE 16
+
+/**
+ * shrink_liability - write-back some dirty pages/inodes.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @nr_to_write: how many dirty pages to write-back
+ *
+ * This function shrinks UBIFS liability by means of writing back some amount
+ * of dirty inodes and their pages.
+ *
+ * Note, this function synchronizes even VFS inodes which are locked
+ * (@i_mutex) by the caller of the budgeting function, because write-back does
+ * not touch @i_mutex.
+ */
+static void shrink_liability(struct ubifs_info *c, int nr_to_write)
+{
+	down_read(&c->vfs_sb->s_umount);
+	writeback_inodes_sb_nr(c->vfs_sb, nr_to_write, WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE);
+	up_read(&c->vfs_sb->s_umount);
+}
+
+/**
+ * run_gc - run garbage collector.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function runs garbage collector to make some more free space. Returns
+ * zero if a free LEB has been produced, %-EAGAIN if commit is required, and a
+ * negative error code in case of failure.
+ */
+static int run_gc(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	int lnum;
+
+	/* Make some free space by garbage-collecting dirty space */
+	down_read(&c->commit_sem);
+	lnum = ubifs_garbage_collect(c, 1);
+	up_read(&c->commit_sem);
+	if (lnum < 0)
+		return lnum;
+
+	/* GC freed one LEB, return it to lprops */
+	dbg_budg("GC freed LEB %d", lnum);
+	return ubifs_return_leb(c, lnum);
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_liability - calculate current liability.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function calculates and returns current UBIFS liability, i.e. the
+ * amount of bytes UBIFS has "promised" to write to the media.
+ */
+static long long get_liability(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	long long liab;
+
+	spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+	liab = c->bi.idx_growth + c->bi.data_growth + c->bi.dd_growth;
+	spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+	return liab;
+}
+
+/**
+ * make_free_space - make more free space on the file-system.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function is called when an operation cannot be budgeted because there
+ * is supposedly no free space. But in most cases there is some free space:
+ *   o budgeting is pessimistic, so it always budgets more than it is actually
+ *     needed, so shrinking the liability is one way to make free space - the
+ *     cached data will take less space then it was budgeted for;
+ *   o GC may turn some dark space into free space (budgeting treats dark space
+ *     as not available);
+ *   o commit may free some LEB, i.e., turn freeable LEBs into free LEBs.
+ *
+ * So this function tries to do the above. Returns %-EAGAIN if some free space
+ * was presumably made and the caller has to re-try budgeting the operation.
+ * Returns %-ENOSPC if it couldn't do more free space, and other negative error
+ * codes on failures.
+ */
+static int make_free_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	int err, retries = 0;
+	long long liab1, liab2;
+
+	do {
+		liab1 = get_liability(c);
+		/*
+		 * We probably have some dirty pages or inodes (liability), try
+		 * to write them back.
+		 */
+		dbg_budg("liability %lld, run write-back", liab1);
+		shrink_liability(c, NR_TO_WRITE);
+
+		liab2 = get_liability(c);
+		if (liab2 < liab1)
+			return -EAGAIN;
+
+		dbg_budg("new liability %lld (not shrunk)", liab2);
+
+		/* Liability did not shrink again, try GC */
+		dbg_budg("Run GC");
+		err = run_gc(c);
+		if (!err)
+			return -EAGAIN;
+
+		if (err != -EAGAIN && err != -ENOSPC)
+			/* Some real error happened */
+			return err;
+
+		dbg_budg("Run commit (retries %d)", retries);
+		err = ubifs_run_commit(c);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+	} while (retries++ < MAX_MKSPC_RETRIES);
+
+	return -ENOSPC;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs - calculate amount of LEBs for the index.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function calculates and returns the number of LEBs which should be kept
+ * for index usage.
+ */
+int ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	int idx_lebs;
+	long long idx_size;
+
+	idx_size = c->bi.old_idx_sz + c->bi.idx_growth + c->bi.uncommitted_idx;
+	/* And make sure we have thrice the index size of space reserved */
+	idx_size += idx_size << 1;
+	/*
+	 * We do not maintain 'old_idx_size' as 'old_idx_lebs'/'old_idx_bytes'
+	 * pair, nor similarly the two variables for the new index size, so we
+	 * have to do this costly 64-bit division on fast-path.
+	 */
+	idx_lebs = div_u64(idx_size + c->idx_leb_size - 1, c->idx_leb_size);
+	/*
+	 * The index head is not available for the in-the-gaps method, so add an
+	 * extra LEB to compensate.
+	 */
+	idx_lebs += 1;
+	if (idx_lebs < MIN_INDEX_LEBS)
+		idx_lebs = MIN_INDEX_LEBS;
+	return idx_lebs;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_calc_available - calculate available FS space.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @min_idx_lebs: minimum number of LEBs reserved for the index
+ *
+ * This function calculates and returns amount of FS space available for use.
+ */
+long long ubifs_calc_available(const struct ubifs_info *c, int min_idx_lebs)
+{
+	int subtract_lebs;
+	long long available;
+
+	available = c->main_bytes - c->lst.total_used;
+
+	/*
+	 * Now 'available' contains theoretically available flash space
+	 * assuming there is no index, so we have to subtract the space which
+	 * is reserved for the index.
+	 */
+	subtract_lebs = min_idx_lebs;
+
+	/* Take into account that GC reserves one LEB for its own needs */
+	subtract_lebs += 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * Since different write types go to different heads, we should
+	 * reserve one leb for each head.
+	 */
+	subtract_lebs += c->jhead_cnt;
+
+	/* We also reserve one LEB for deletions, which bypass budgeting */
+	subtract_lebs += 1;
+
+	available -= (long long)subtract_lebs * c->leb_size;
+
+	/* Subtract the dead space which is not available for use */
+	available -= c->lst.total_dead;
+
+	/*
+	 * Subtract dark space, which might or might not be usable - it depends
+	 * on the data which we have on the media and which will be written. If
+	 * this is a lot of uncompressed or not-compressible data, the dark
+	 * space cannot be used.
+	 */
+	available -= c->lst.total_dark;
+
+	/*
+	 * However, there is more dark space. The index may be bigger than
+	 * @min_idx_lebs. Those extra LEBs are assumed to be available, but
+	 * their dark space is not included in total_dark, so it is subtracted
+	 * here.
+	 */
+	if (c->lst.idx_lebs > min_idx_lebs) {
+		subtract_lebs = c->lst.idx_lebs - min_idx_lebs;
+		available -= subtract_lebs * c->dark_wm;
+	}
+
+	/* The calculations are rough and may end up with a negative number */
+	return available > 0 ? available : 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * can_use_rp - check whether the user is allowed to use reserved pool.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * UBIFS has so-called "reserved pool" which is flash space reserved
+ * for the superuser and for uses whose UID/GID is recorded in UBIFS superblock.
+ * This function checks whether current user is allowed to use reserved pool.
+ * Returns %1  current user is allowed to use reserved pool and %0 otherwise.
+ */
+static int can_use_rp(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	if (uid_eq(current_fsuid(), c->rp_uid) || capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) ||
+	    (!gid_eq(c->rp_gid, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID) && in_group_p(c->rp_gid)))
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * do_budget_space - reserve flash space for index and data growth.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function makes sure UBIFS has enough free LEBs for index growth and
+ * data.
+ *
+ * When budgeting index space, UBIFS reserves thrice as many LEBs as the index
+ * would take if it was consolidated and written to the flash. This guarantees
+ * that the "in-the-gaps" commit method always succeeds and UBIFS will always
+ * be able to commit dirty index. So this function basically adds amount of
+ * budgeted index space to the size of the current index, multiplies this by 3,
+ * and makes sure this does not exceed the amount of free LEBs.
+ *
+ * Notes about @c->bi.min_idx_lebs and @c->lst.idx_lebs variables:
+ * o @c->lst.idx_lebs is the number of LEBs the index currently uses. It might
+ *    be large, because UBIFS does not do any index consolidation as long as
+ *    there is free space. IOW, the index may take a lot of LEBs, but the LEBs
+ *    will contain a lot of dirt.
+ * o @c->bi.min_idx_lebs is the number of LEBS the index presumably takes. IOW,
+ *    the index may be consolidated to take up to @c->bi.min_idx_lebs LEBs.
+ *
+ * This function returns zero in case of success, and %-ENOSPC in case of
+ * failure.
+ */
+static int do_budget_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	long long outstanding, available;
+	int lebs, rsvd_idx_lebs, min_idx_lebs;
+
+	/* First budget index space */
+	min_idx_lebs = ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(c);
+
+	/* Now 'min_idx_lebs' contains number of LEBs to reserve */
+	if (min_idx_lebs > c->lst.idx_lebs)
+		rsvd_idx_lebs = min_idx_lebs - c->lst.idx_lebs;
+	else
+		rsvd_idx_lebs = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * The number of LEBs that are available to be used by the index is:
+	 *
+	 *    @c->lst.empty_lebs + @c->freeable_cnt + @c->idx_gc_cnt -
+	 *    @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs
+	 *
+	 * @c->lst.empty_lebs are available because they are empty.
+	 * @c->freeable_cnt are available because they contain only free and
+	 * dirty space, @c->idx_gc_cnt are available because they are index
+	 * LEBs that have been garbage collected and are awaiting the commit
+	 * before they can be used. And the in-the-gaps method will grab these
+	 * if it needs them. @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs are empty LEBs that have
+	 * already been allocated for some purpose.
+	 *
+	 * Note, @c->idx_gc_cnt is included to both @c->lst.empty_lebs (because
+	 * these LEBs are empty) and to @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs (because they
+	 * are taken until after the commit).
+	 *
+	 * Note, @c->lst.taken_empty_lebs may temporarily be higher by one
+	 * because of the way we serialize LEB allocations and budgeting. See a
+	 * comment in 'ubifs_find_free_space()'.
+	 */
+	lebs = c->lst.empty_lebs + c->freeable_cnt + c->idx_gc_cnt -
+	       c->lst.taken_empty_lebs;
+	if (unlikely(rsvd_idx_lebs > lebs)) {
+		dbg_budg("out of indexing space: min_idx_lebs %d (old %d), rsvd_idx_lebs %d",
+			 min_idx_lebs, c->bi.min_idx_lebs, rsvd_idx_lebs);
+		return -ENOSPC;
+	}
+
+	available = ubifs_calc_available(c, min_idx_lebs);
+	outstanding = c->bi.data_growth + c->bi.dd_growth;
+
+	if (unlikely(available < outstanding)) {
+		dbg_budg("out of data space: available %lld, outstanding %lld",
+			 available, outstanding);
+		return -ENOSPC;
+	}
+
+	if (available - outstanding <= c->rp_size && !can_use_rp(c))
+		return -ENOSPC;
+
+	c->bi.min_idx_lebs = min_idx_lebs;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * calc_idx_growth - calculate approximate index growth from budgeting request.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budgeting request
+ *
+ * For now we assume each new node adds one znode. But this is rather poor
+ * approximation, though.
+ */
+static int calc_idx_growth(const struct ubifs_info *c,
+			   const struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+	int znodes;
+
+	znodes = req->new_ino + (req->new_page << UBIFS_BLOCKS_PER_PAGE_SHIFT) +
+		 req->new_dent;
+	return znodes * c->max_idx_node_sz;
+}
+
+/**
+ * calc_data_growth - calculate approximate amount of new data from budgeting
+ * request.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budgeting request
+ */
+static int calc_data_growth(const struct ubifs_info *c,
+			    const struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+	int data_growth;
+
+	data_growth = req->new_ino  ? c->bi.inode_budget : 0;
+	if (req->new_page)
+		data_growth += c->bi.page_budget;
+	if (req->new_dent)
+		data_growth += c->bi.dent_budget;
+	data_growth += req->new_ino_d;
+	return data_growth;
+}
+
+/**
+ * calc_dd_growth - calculate approximate amount of data which makes other data
+ * dirty from budgeting request.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budgeting request
+ */
+static int calc_dd_growth(const struct ubifs_info *c,
+			  const struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+	int dd_growth;
+
+	dd_growth = req->dirtied_page ? c->bi.page_budget : 0;
+
+	if (req->dirtied_ino)
+		dd_growth += c->bi.inode_budget * req->dirtied_ino;
+	if (req->mod_dent)
+		dd_growth += c->bi.dent_budget;
+	dd_growth += req->dirtied_ino_d;
+	return dd_growth;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_budget_space - ensure there is enough space to complete an operation.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budget request
+ *
+ * This function allocates budget for an operation. It uses pessimistic
+ * approximation of how much flash space the operation needs. The goal of this
+ * function is to make sure UBIFS always has flash space to flush all dirty
+ * pages, dirty inodes, and dirty znodes (liability). This function may force
+ * commit, garbage-collection or write-back. Returns zero in case of success,
+ * %-ENOSPC if there is no free space and other negative error codes in case of
+ * failures.
+ */
+int ubifs_budget_space(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+	int err, idx_growth, data_growth, dd_growth, retried = 0;
+
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->new_page <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->dirtied_page <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->new_dent <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->mod_dent <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->new_ino <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->new_ino_d <= UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->dirtied_ino <= 4);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->dirtied_ino_d <= UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA * 4);
+	ubifs_assert(c, !(req->new_ino_d & 7));
+	ubifs_assert(c, !(req->dirtied_ino_d & 7));
+
+	data_growth = calc_data_growth(c, req);
+	dd_growth = calc_dd_growth(c, req);
+	if (!data_growth && !dd_growth)
+		return 0;
+	idx_growth = calc_idx_growth(c, req);
+
+again:
+	spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+	ubifs_assert(c, c->bi.idx_growth >= 0);
+	ubifs_assert(c, c->bi.data_growth >= 0);
+	ubifs_assert(c, c->bi.dd_growth >= 0);
+
+	if (unlikely(c->bi.nospace) && (c->bi.nospace_rp || !can_use_rp(c))) {
+		dbg_budg("no space");
+		spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+		return -ENOSPC;
+	}
+
+	c->bi.idx_growth += idx_growth;
+	c->bi.data_growth += data_growth;
+	c->bi.dd_growth += dd_growth;
+
+	err = do_budget_space(c);
+	if (likely(!err)) {
+		req->idx_growth = idx_growth;
+		req->data_growth = data_growth;
+		req->dd_growth = dd_growth;
+		spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	/* Restore the old values */
+	c->bi.idx_growth -= idx_growth;
+	c->bi.data_growth -= data_growth;
+	c->bi.dd_growth -= dd_growth;
+	spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+
+	if (req->fast) {
+		dbg_budg("no space for fast budgeting");
+		return err;
+	}
+
+	err = make_free_space(c);
+	cond_resched();
+	if (err == -EAGAIN) {
+		dbg_budg("try again");
+		goto again;
+	} else if (err == -ENOSPC) {
+		if (!retried) {
+			retried = 1;
+			dbg_budg("-ENOSPC, but anyway try once again");
+			goto again;
+		}
+		dbg_budg("FS is full, -ENOSPC");
+		c->bi.nospace = 1;
+		if (can_use_rp(c) || c->rp_size == 0)
+			c->bi.nospace_rp = 1;
+		smp_wmb();
+	} else
+		ubifs_err(c, "cannot budget space, error %d", err);
+	return err;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_release_budget - release budgeted free space.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @req: budget request
+ *
+ * This function releases the space budgeted by 'ubifs_budget_space()'. Note,
+ * since the index changes (which were budgeted for in @req->idx_growth) will
+ * only be written to the media on commit, this function moves the index budget
+ * from @c->bi.idx_growth to @c->bi.uncommitted_idx. The latter will be zeroed
+ * by the commit operation.
+ */
+void ubifs_release_budget(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
+{
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->new_page <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->dirtied_page <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->new_dent <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->mod_dent <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->new_ino <= 1);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->new_ino_d <= UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->dirtied_ino <= 4);
+	ubifs_assert(c, req->dirtied_ino_d <= UBIFS_MAX_INO_DATA * 4);
+	ubifs_assert(c, !(req->new_ino_d & 7));
+	ubifs_assert(c, !(req->dirtied_ino_d & 7));
+	if (!req->recalculate) {
+		ubifs_assert(c, req->idx_growth >= 0);
+		ubifs_assert(c, req->data_growth >= 0);
+		ubifs_assert(c, req->dd_growth >= 0);
+	}
+
+	if (req->recalculate) {
+		req->data_growth = calc_data_growth(c, req);
+		req->dd_growth = calc_dd_growth(c, req);
+		req->idx_growth = calc_idx_growth(c, req);
+	}
+
+	if (!req->data_growth && !req->dd_growth)
+		return;
+
+	c->bi.nospace = c->bi.nospace_rp = 0;
+	smp_wmb();
+
+	spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+	c->bi.idx_growth -= req->idx_growth;
+	c->bi.uncommitted_idx += req->idx_growth;
+	c->bi.data_growth -= req->data_growth;
+	c->bi.dd_growth -= req->dd_growth;
+	c->bi.min_idx_lebs = ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(c);
+
+	ubifs_assert(c, c->bi.idx_growth >= 0);
+	ubifs_assert(c, c->bi.data_growth >= 0);
+	ubifs_assert(c, c->bi.dd_growth >= 0);
+	ubifs_assert(c, c->bi.min_idx_lebs < c->main_lebs);
+	ubifs_assert(c, !(c->bi.idx_growth & 7));
+	ubifs_assert(c, !(c->bi.data_growth & 7));
+	ubifs_assert(c, !(c->bi.dd_growth & 7));
+	spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_convert_page_budget - convert budget of a new page.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function converts budget which was allocated for a new page of data to
+ * the budget of changing an existing page of data. The latter is smaller than
+ * the former, so this function only does simple re-calculation and does not
+ * involve any write-back.
+ */
+void ubifs_convert_page_budget(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+	/* Release the index growth reservation */
+	c->bi.idx_growth -= c->max_idx_node_sz << UBIFS_BLOCKS_PER_PAGE_SHIFT;
+	/* Release the data growth reservation */
+	c->bi.data_growth -= c->bi.page_budget;
+	/* Increase the dirty data growth reservation instead */
+	c->bi.dd_growth += c->bi.page_budget;
+	/* And re-calculate the indexing space reservation */
+	c->bi.min_idx_lebs = ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(c);
+	spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_release_dirty_inode_budget - release dirty inode budget.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @ui: UBIFS inode to release the budget for
+ *
+ * This function releases budget corresponding to a dirty inode. It is usually
+ * called when after the inode has been written to the media and marked as
+ * clean. It also causes the "no space" flags to be cleared.
+ */
+void ubifs_release_dirty_inode_budget(struct ubifs_info *c,
+				      struct ubifs_inode *ui)
+{
+	struct ubifs_budget_req req;
+
+	memset(&req, 0, sizeof(struct ubifs_budget_req));
+	/* The "no space" flags will be cleared because dd_growth is > 0 */
+	req.dd_growth = c->bi.inode_budget + ALIGN(ui->data_len, 8);
+	ubifs_release_budget(c, &req);
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_reported_space - calculate reported free space.
+ * @c: the UBIFS file-system description object
+ * @free: amount of free space
+ *
+ * This function calculates amount of free space which will be reported to
+ * user-space. User-space application tend to expect that if the file-system
+ * (e.g., via the 'statfs()' call) reports that it has N bytes available, they
+ * are able to write a file of size N. UBIFS attaches node headers to each data
+ * node and it has to write indexing nodes as well. This introduces additional
+ * overhead, and UBIFS has to report slightly less free space to meet the above
+ * expectations.
+ *
+ * This function assumes free space is made up of uncompressed data nodes and
+ * full index nodes (one per data node, tripled because we always allow enough
+ * space to write the index thrice).
+ *
+ * Note, the calculation is pessimistic, which means that most of the time
+ * UBIFS reports less space than it actually has.
+ */
+long long ubifs_reported_space(const struct ubifs_info *c, long long free)
+{
+	int divisor, factor, f;
+
+	/*
+	 * Reported space size is @free * X, where X is UBIFS block size
+	 * divided by UBIFS block size + all overhead one data block
+	 * introduces. The overhead is the node header + indexing overhead.
+	 *
+	 * Indexing overhead calculations are based on the following formula:
+	 * I = N/(f - 1) + 1, where I - number of indexing nodes, N - number
+	 * of data nodes, f - fanout. Because effective UBIFS fanout is twice
+	 * as less than maximum fanout, we assume that each data node
+	 * introduces 3 * @c->max_idx_node_sz / (@c->fanout/2 - 1) bytes.
+	 * Note, the multiplier 3 is because UBIFS reserves thrice as more space
+	 * for the index.
+	 */
+	f = c->fanout > 3 ? c->fanout >> 1 : 2;
+	factor = UBIFS_BLOCK_SIZE;
+	divisor = UBIFS_MAX_DATA_NODE_SZ;
+	divisor += (c->max_idx_node_sz * 3) / (f - 1);
+	free *= factor;
+	return div_u64(free, divisor);
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_get_free_space_nolock - return amount of free space.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function calculates amount of free space to report to user-space.
+ *
+ * Because UBIFS may introduce substantial overhead (the index, node headers,
+ * alignment, wastage at the end of LEBs, etc), it cannot report real amount of
+ * free flash space it has (well, because not all dirty space is reclaimable,
+ * UBIFS does not actually know the real amount). If UBIFS did so, it would
+ * bread user expectations about what free space is. Users seem to accustomed
+ * to assume that if the file-system reports N bytes of free space, they would
+ * be able to fit a file of N bytes to the FS. This almost works for
+ * traditional file-systems, because they have way less overhead than UBIFS.
+ * So, to keep users happy, UBIFS tries to take the overhead into account.
+ */
+long long ubifs_get_free_space_nolock(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	int rsvd_idx_lebs, lebs;
+	long long available, outstanding, free;
+
+	ubifs_assert(c, c->bi.min_idx_lebs == ubifs_calc_min_idx_lebs(c));
+	outstanding = c->bi.data_growth + c->bi.dd_growth;
+	available = ubifs_calc_available(c, c->bi.min_idx_lebs);
+
+	/*
+	 * When reporting free space to user-space, UBIFS guarantees that it is
+	 * possible to write a file of free space size. This means that for
+	 * empty LEBs we may use more precise calculations than
+	 * 'ubifs_calc_available()' is using. Namely, we know that in empty
+	 * LEBs we would waste only @c->leb_overhead bytes, not @c->dark_wm.
+	 * Thus, amend the available space.
+	 *
+	 * Note, the calculations below are similar to what we have in
+	 * 'do_budget_space()', so refer there for comments.
+	 */
+	if (c->bi.min_idx_lebs > c->lst.idx_lebs)
+		rsvd_idx_lebs = c->bi.min_idx_lebs - c->lst.idx_lebs;
+	else
+		rsvd_idx_lebs = 0;
+	lebs = c->lst.empty_lebs + c->freeable_cnt + c->idx_gc_cnt -
+	       c->lst.taken_empty_lebs;
+	lebs -= rsvd_idx_lebs;
+	available += lebs * (c->dark_wm - c->leb_overhead);
+
+	if (available > outstanding)
+		free = ubifs_reported_space(c, available - outstanding);
+	else
+		free = 0;
+	return free;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ubifs_get_free_space - return amount of free space.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function calculates and returns amount of free space to report to
+ * user-space.
+ */
+long long ubifs_get_free_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+	long long free;
+
+	spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+	free = ubifs_get_free_space_nolock(c);
+	spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+
+	return free;
+}