Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/6] ubifs: Maintain a parent pointer | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Mon, 22 May 2017 10:45:08 +0200 |
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Hyunchul,
Am 22.05.2017 um 06:30 schrieb Hyunchul Lee: >> + if (move) >> + old_inode_ui->parent_inum = new_dir->i_ino; >> + >> err = ubifs_jnl_rename(c, old_dir, old_inode, &old_nm, new_dir, >> new_inode, &new_nm, whiteout, sync); > > I think that old_inode_ui->parent_inum could point old_dir, even though old_inode > is a child of new_dir. this could happen that there is power-cut before > old_inode is synced. so I guess that old_inode is needed to be written with > rename's node group in ubifs_jnl_rename. is it right?
I assumed that the journal does this already because we change old_inode->i_ctime in this function too. But checking the code showed the opposite. So, if we face a power-cut the rename can succeed but we lose the ctime change.
This needs to be addressed before we can add the parent pointer.
Thanks, //richard
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