Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2021-06-17

Re: [PATCH] ext4: cleanup in-core orphan list if ext4_truncate() failed to get a transaction handle

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2021-05-10 10:21:45

On Fri 07-05-21 15:19:04, Zhang Yi wrote:
In ext4_orphan_cleanup(), if ext4_truncate() failed to get a transaction
handle, it didn't remove the inode from the in-core orphan list, which
may probably trigger below error dump in ext4_destroy_inode() during the
final iput() and could lead to memory corruption on the later orphan
list changes.

 EXT4-fs (sda): Inode 6291467 (00000000b8247c67): orphan list check failed!
 00000000b8247c67: 0001f30a 00000004 00000000 00000023  ............#...
 00000000e24cde71: 00000006 014082a3 00000000 00000000  ......@.........
 0000000072c6a5ee: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
 ...

This patch fix this by cleanup in-core orphan list manually if
ext4_truncate() return error.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Thanks! The patch looks good to me. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 7dc94f3e18e6..12850d72e9a4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3101,8 +3101,15 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
 			inode_lock(inode);
 			truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, inode->i_size);
 			ret = ext4_truncate(inode);
-			if (ret)
+			if (ret) {
+				/*
+				 * We need to clean up the in-core orphan list
+				 * manually if ext4_truncate() failed to get a
+				 * transaction handle.
+				 */
+				ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
 				ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, ret);
+			}
 			inode_unlock(inode);
 			nr_truncates++;
 		} else {
-- 
2.25.4
-- 
Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR
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