static void ext4_free_branches(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
			       struct buffer_head *parent_bh,
			       __le32 *first, __le32 *last, int depth)
{
	ext4_fsblk_t nr;
	__le32 *p;

	if (ext4_handle_is_aborted(handle))
		return;

	if (depth--) {
		struct buffer_head *bh;
		int addr_per_block = EXT4_ADDR_PER_BLOCK(inode->i_sb);
		p = last;
		while (--p >= first) {
			nr = le32_to_cpu(*p);
			if (!nr)
				continue;		/* A hole */

			if (!ext4_data_block_valid(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb),
						   nr, 1)) {
				ext4_error(inode->i_sb,
					   "indirect mapped block in inode "
					   "#%lu invalid (level %d, blk #%lu)",
					   inode->i_ino, depth,
					   (unsigned long) nr);
				break;
			}

			/* Go read the buffer for the next level down */
			bh = sb_bread(inode->i_sb, nr);

			/*
			 * A read failure? Report error and clear slot
			 * (should be rare).
			 */
			if (!bh) {
				ext4_error(inode->i_sb,
					   "Read failure, inode=%lu, block=%llu",
					   inode->i_ino, nr);
				continue;
			}

			/* This zaps the entire block.  Bottom up. */
			BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "free child branches");
			ext4_free_branches(handle, inode, bh,
					(__le32 *) bh->b_data,
					(__le32 *) bh->b_data + addr_per_block,
					depth);

			/*
			 * We've probably journalled the indirect block several
			 * times during the truncate.  But it's no longer
			 * needed and we now drop it from the transaction via
			 * jbd2_journal_revoke().
			 *
			 * That's easy if it's exclusively part of this
			 * transaction.  But if it's part of the committing
			 * transaction then jbd2_journal_forget() will simply
			 * brelse() it.  That means that if the underlying
			 * block is reallocated in ext4_get_block(),
			 * unmap_underlying_metadata() will find this block
			 * and will try to get rid of it.  damn, damn.
			 *
			 * If this block has already been committed to the
			 * journal, a revoke record will be written.  And
			 * revoke records must be emitted *before* clearing
			 * this block's bit in the bitmaps.
			 */
			ext4_forget(handle, 1, inode, bh, bh->b_blocknr);

			/*
			 * Everything below this this pointer has been
			 * released.  Now let this top-of-subtree go.
			 *
			 * We want the freeing of this indirect block to be
			 * atomic in the journal with the updating of the
			 * bitmap block which owns it.  So make some room in
			 * the journal.
			 *
			 * We zero the parent pointer *after* freeing its
			 * pointee in the bitmaps, so if extend_transaction()
			 * for some reason fails to put the bitmap changes and
			 * the release into the same transaction, recovery
			 * will merely complain about releasing a free block,
			 * rather than leaking blocks.
			 */
			if (ext4_handle_is_aborted(handle))
				return;
			if (try_to_extend_transaction(handle, inode)) {
				ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
				ext4_truncate_restart_trans(handle, inode,
					    blocks_for_truncate(inode));
			}

			ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, 0, nr, 1,
					 EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_METADATA);

			if (parent_bh) {
				/*
				 * The block which we have just freed is
				 * pointed to by an indirect block: journal it
				 */
				BUFFER_TRACE(parent_bh, "get_write_access");
				if (!ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle,
								   parent_bh)){
					*p = 0;
					BUFFER_TRACE(parent_bh,
					"call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
					ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle,
								   inode,
								   parent_bh);
				}
			}
		}
	} else {
		/* We have reached the bottom of the tree. */
		BUFFER_TRACE(parent_bh, "free data blocks");
		ext4_free_data(handle, inode, parent_bh, first, last);
	}
}