On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:01:50AM +0800, zhangyi (F) wrote: > > In this error path of whiteout rename, we want to restore the old inode > number and old name back to the old entry, it's just a rollback operation. > The old entry will stay where it was in common cases, but it can be moved > from the first block to the leaf block during make indexed dir for one > special case, but it cannot be deleted in theory. So if we cannot find it > again, there must some bad thing happen and the filesystem may probably > inconsistency. So I calling ext4_std_error() here，or am I missing something？ After looking at this more closely, I agree, this should be OK. The directory is going to be locked, so it shouldn't be changing out from under us. Thanks, applied. - Ted
