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SubjectRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 27/37] ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:38:03AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
>
> [ Upstream commit c7df4a1ecb8579838ec8c56b2bb6a6716e974f37 ]
>
> If the file system is corrupted such that a file's i_links_count is
> too small, then it's possible that when unlinking that file, i_nlink
> will already be zero. Previously we were working around this kind of
> corruption by forcing i_nlink to one; but we were doing this before
> trying to delete the directory entry --- and if the file system is
> corrupted enough that ext4_delete_entry() fails, then we exit with
> i_nlink elevated, and this causes the orphan inode list handling to be
> FUBAR'ed, such that when we unmount the file system, the orphan inode
> list can get corrupted.
>
> A better way to fix this is to simply skip trying to call drop_nlink()
> if i_nlink is already zero, thus moving the check to the place where
> it makes the most sense.
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205433
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112032903.8828-1-tytso@mit.edu
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

I'm confused; this was explicitly cc'ed to stable@kernel.org, so why
is your AUTOSEL picking this up? I would have thought this would get
picked up via the normal stable kernel processes.

Thanks,

- Ted

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