f2fs: Fix indefinite loop in f2fs_gc()
Policy - foreground GC, LFS mode and greedy GC mode.
Under this policy, f2fs_gc() loops forever to GC as it doesn't have
enough free segements to proceed and thus it keeps calling gc_more
for the same victim segment. This can happen if the selected victim
segment could not be GC'd due to failed blkaddr validity check i.e.
is_alive() returns false for the blocks set in current validity map.
Fix this by not resetting the sbi->cur_victim_sec to NULL_SEGNO, when
the segment selected could not be GC'd. This helps to select another
segment for GC and thus helps to proceed forward with GC.
[Note]
This can happen due to is_alive as well as atomic_file which skipps
GC.
Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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