When filesystem is corrupted in the right way, it can happen ext4_mark_iloc_dirty() in ext4_orphan_add() returns error and we subsequently remove inode from the in-memory orphan list. However this deletion is done with list_del(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan) and thus we leave i_orphan list_head with a stale content. Later we can look at this content causing list corruption, oops, or other issues. The reported trace looked like: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 46 at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry+0x6b/0x100() list_del corruption, 0000000061c1d6e0->next is LIST_POISON1 0000000000100100) CPU: 0 PID: 46 Comm: ext4.exe Not tainted 4.1.0-rc4+ #250 Stack: 60462947 62219960 602ede24 62219960 602ede24 603ca293 622198f0 602f02eb 62219950 6002c12c 62219900 601b4d6b Call Trace: [<6005769c>] ? vprintk_emit+0x2dc/0x5c0 [<602ede24>] ? printk+0x0/0x94 [<600190bc>] show_stack+0xdc/0x1a0 [<602ede24>] ? printk+0x0/0x94 [<602ede24>] ? printk+0x0/0x94 [<602f02eb>] dump_stack+0x2a/0x2c [<6002c12c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x9c/0xf0 [<601b4d6b>] ? __list_del_entry+0x6b/0x100 [<6002c254>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x94/0xa0 [<602f4d09>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x239/0x3a0 [<6002c1c0>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x0/0xa0 [<60023ebf>] ? set_signals+0x3f/0x50 [<600a205a>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x10a/0x180 [<602f4e88>] ? mutex_lock+0x18/0x30 [<601b4d6b>] __list_del_entry+0x6b/0x100 [<601177ec>] ext4_orphan_del+0x22c/0x2f0 [<6012f27c>] ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x2c/0xa0 [<6010b973>] ? ext4_truncate+0x383/0x390 [<6010bc8b>] ext4_write_begin+0x30b/0x4b0 [<6001bb50>] ? copy_from_user+0x0/0xb0 [<601aa840>] ? iov_iter_fault_in_readable+0xa0/0xc0 [<60072c4f>] generic_perform_write+0xaf/0x1e0 [<600c4166>] ? file_update_time+0x46/0x110 [<60072f0f>] __generic_file_write_iter+0x18f/0x1b0 [<6010030f>] ext4_file_write_iter+0x15f/0x470 [<60094e10>] ? unlink_file_vma+0x0/0x70 [<6009b180>] ? unlink_anon_vmas+0x0/0x260 [<6008f169>] ? free_pgtables+0xb9/0x100 [<600a6030>] __vfs_write+0xb0/0x130 [<600a61d5>] vfs_write+0xa5/0x170 [<600a63d6>] SyS_write+0x56/0xe0 [<6029fcb0>] ? __libc_waitpid+0x0/0xa0 [<6001b698>] handle_syscall+0x68/0x90 [<6002633d>] userspace+0x4fd/0x600 [<6002274f>] ? save_registers+0x1f/0x40 [<60028bd7>] ? arch_prctl+0x177/0x1b0 [<60017bd5>] fork_handler+0x85/0x90 Fix the problem by using list_del_init() as we always should with i_orphan list. CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 48e4b8907826..fdd151f91522 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2828,7 +2828,7 @@ int ext4_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) * list entries can cause panics at unmount time. */ mutex_lock(&sbi->s_orphan_lock); - list_del(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan); + list_del_init(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan); mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_orphan_lock); } } -- 2.6.6 -- 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
