On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:02 AM, <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> > > If the orphan node list includes valid, untruncatable nodes with nlink > 0 > the ext3_orphan_cleanup loop which attempts to delete them will not do so, > causing it to loop forever. Fix by checking for such nodes in the > ext3_orphan_get function. > > This patch fixes the second case (image hdb.20000009.softlockup.gz) > reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10882. > > [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: coding-style fixes] > [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: printk warning fix] > Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > diff -puN fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount fs/ext3/inode.c > --- a/fs/ext3/inode.c~ext3-handle-corrupted-orphan-list-at-mount > +++ a/fs/ext3/inode.c > @@ -2253,6 +2253,19 @@ static void ext3_free_branches(handle_t > } > } > > +int ext3_can_truncate(struct inode *inode) > +{ > + if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) > + return 0; > + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) > + return 1; > + if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) > + return 1; > + if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) > + return !ext3_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode); > + return 0; > +} > + > /* > * ext3_truncate() > * > @@ -2297,12 +2310,7 @@ void ext3_truncate(struct inode *inode) > unsigned blocksize = inode->i_sb->s_blocksize; > struct page *page; > > - if (!(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || > - S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) > - return; > - if (ext3_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode)) > - return; > - if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) > + if (!ext3_can_truncate(inode)) > return; I may be missing something here but doesn't the above change the logic that was used in ext3_truncate for the S_ISDIR and S_ISLNK cases? Before ext3_truncate would be short-circuited if S_ISDIR or S_ISLNK, now it won't... is that intended? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html