From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, stable@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 22:29:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191112032903.8828-1-tytso@mit.edu> (raw)
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
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index a67cae3c8ff5..a856997d87b5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -3196,18 +3196,17 @@ static int ext4_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
ext4_handle_sync(handle);
- if (inode->i_nlink == 0) {
- ext4_warning_inode(inode, "Deleting file '%.*s' with no links",
- dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);
- set_nlink(inode, 1);
- }
retval = ext4_delete_entry(handle, dir, de, bh);
if (retval)
goto end_unlink;
dir->i_ctime = dir->i_mtime = current_time(dir);
ext4_update_dx_flag(dir);
ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
- drop_nlink(inode);
+ if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
+ ext4_warning_inode(inode, "Deleting file '%.*s' with no links",
+ dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);
+ else
+ drop_nlink(inode);
if (!inode->i_nlink)
ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
--
2.23.0
next reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 3:34 UTC|newest]
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2019-11-13 21:25 ` [PATCH] ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely Andreas Dilger
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