In ext4_orphan_cleanup(), if ext4_truncate() failed to get a transaction
handle, it didn't remove the inode from the in-core orphan list, which
may probably trigger below error dump in ext4_destroy_inode() during the
final iput() and could lead to memory corruption on the later orphan
list changes.
EXT4-fs (sda): Inode 6291467 (00000000b8247c67): orphan list check failed!
00000000b8247c67: 0001f30a 00000004 00000000 00000023 ............#...
00000000e24cde71: 00000006 014082a3 00000000 00000000 ......@.........
0000000072c6a5ee: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................
...
This patch fix this by cleanup in-core orphan list manually if
ext4_truncate() return error.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/super.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 7dc94f3e18e6..12850d72e9a4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3101,8 +3101,15 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
inode_lock(inode);
truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, inode->i_size);
ret = ext4_truncate(inode);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ /*
+ * We need to clean up the in-core orphan list
+ * manually if ext4_truncate() failed to get a
+ * transaction handle.
+ */
+ ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, ret);
+ }
inode_unlock(inode);
nr_truncates++;
} else {
--
2.25.4
