Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:25:45 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 27/37] ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely |
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:19:59AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > 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.
Perhaps because it is still in my queue, I haven't gotten there yet, but will do so after this next round of -rcs are released.
thanks,
greg k-h
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