On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:01:50AM +0800, zhangyi (F) wrote:

In this error path of whiteout rename, we want to restore the old inode
number and old name back to the old entry, it's just a rollback operation.
The old entry will stay where it was in common cases, but it can be moved
from the first block to the leaf block during make indexed dir for one
special case, but it cannot be deleted in theory. So if we cannot find it
again, there must some bad thing happen and the filesystem may probably
inconsistency. So I calling ext4_std_error() here，or am I missing something？

After looking at this more closely, I agree, this should be OK.  The
directory is going to be locked, so it shouldn't be changing out from
under us.

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted