On 12/8/11 5:13 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 08-12-11 14:46:09, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 12/8/11 2:28 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
>>> When insert_inode_locked() fails in ext3_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 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>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I think ext2 could use the same treatment.
> Good point. Attached is a similar patch for ext2 (I didn't use your patch
> so that all ext? are consistent and declare filesystem error when
> insert_inode_locked() fails). Thanks.
>
> Honza
>
>
> From 9d1602d9a8b895d0b6dbb30a6d2a148558912dad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 00:08:58 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] ext2: Fix error handling on inode bitmap corruption
>
> When insert_inode_locked() fails in ext2_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 informing about filesystem error and
> jumping to fail: (instead of fail_drop:) which doesn't call unlock_new_inode().
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext2/ialloc.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext2/ialloc.c b/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
> index c4e81df..78502c1 100644
> --- a/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext2/ialloc.c
> @@ -573,8 +573,11 @@ got:
> inode->i_generation = sbi->s_next_generation++;
> spin_unlock(&sbi->s_next_gen_lock);
> if (insert_inode_locked(inode) < 0) {
> - err = -EINVAL;
> - goto fail_drop;
> + ext2_error(sb, "ext2_new_inode",
> + "inode number already in use - inode=%lu",
> + (unsigned long) ino);
> + err = -EIO;
> + goto fail;
> }
>
> dquot_initialize(inode);
> -- 1.7.1
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