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 -- 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