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@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 files 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++; -- 1.7.1 -- 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