Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: Mark block group as corrupt on inode bitmap error

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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:22:52PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 04:55:59PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > If we detect either a discrepancy between the inode bitmap and the inode counts
> > or the inode bitmap fails to pass validation checks, mark the block group
> > corrupt and refuse to allocate or deallocate inodes from the group.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

> > @@ -266,7 +270,9 @@ void ext4_free_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode)
> >  	block_group = (ino - 1) / EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb);
> >  	bit = (ino - 1) % EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb);
> >  	bitmap_bh = ext4_read_inode_bitmap(sb, block_group);
> > -	if (!bitmap_bh)
> > +	/* Don't bother if the inode bitmap is corrupt. */
> > +	grp = ext4_get_group_info(sb, block_group);
> > +	if (unlikely(EXT4_MB_GRP_IBITMAP_CORRUPT(grp)) || !bitmap_bh)
> >  		goto error_return;
> 
> It seems that this is a duplicated check.  If we encounters a currupted
> inode bitmap, ext4_read_inode_bitmap() will return null.

If an already released inode is freed, the IBITMAP_CORRUPT bit can be
set even though the checksum is valid and ext4_read_inode_bitmap()
returns a non-null bh pointer.

						- Ted
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