Thread (121 messages) 121 messages, 2 authors, 2012-05-28

[ 080/117] ext4: fix error handling on inode bitmap corruption

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-28 03:36:25
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: ext4 file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: "Theodore Ts'o", Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

commit acd6ad83517639e8f09a8c5525b1dccd81cd2a10 upstream.

When insert_inode_locked() fails in ext4_new_inode() it most likely means inode
bitmap got corrupted and we allocated again inode which is already in use. Also
doing unlock_new_inode() during error recovery is wrong since the inode does
not have I_NEW set. Fix the problem by jumping to fail: (instead of fail_drop:)
which declares filesystem error and does not call unlock_new_inode().

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
---
 fs/ext4/ialloc.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 00beb4f..8fb6844 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -885,8 +885,12 @@ got:
 	if (IS_DIRSYNC(inode))
 		ext4_handle_sync(handle);
 	if (insert_inode_locked(inode) < 0) {
-		err = -EINVAL;
-		goto fail_drop;
+		/*
+		 * Likely a bitmap corruption causing inode to be allocated
+		 * twice.
+		 */
+		err = -EIO;
+		goto fail;
 	}
 	spin_lock(&sbi->s_next_gen_lock);
 	inode->i_generation = sbi->s_next_generation++;

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