While running "./check -I 200 generic/475" it sometimes gives below kernel BUG(). Ideally we should not call ext4_write_inline_data() if ext4_create_inline_data() has failed. <log snip> [73131.453234] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inline.c:223! <code snip> 212 static void ext4_write_inline_data(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc, 213 void *buffer, loff_t pos, unsigned int len) 214 { <...> 223 BUG_ON(!EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_off); 224 BUG_ON(pos + len > EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_size); This patch handles the error and prints out a emergency msg saying potential data loss for the given inode (since we couldn't restore the original inline_data due to some previous error). [ 9571.070313] EXT4-fs (dm-0): error restoring inline_data for inode -- potential data loss! (inode 1703982, error -30) Reported-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inline.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c index 534c0329e110..31741e8a462e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inline.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c @@ -1135,7 +1135,15 @@ static void ext4_restore_inline_data(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc, void *buf, int inline_size) { - ext4_create_inline_data(handle, inode, inline_size); + int ret; + + ret = ext4_create_inline_data(handle, inode, inline_size); + if (ret) { + ext4_msg(inode->i_sb, KERN_EMERG, + "error restoring inline_data for inode -- potential data loss! (inode %lu, error %d)", + inode->i_ino, ret); + return; + } ext4_write_inline_data(inode, iloc, buf, 0, inline_size); ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA); } -- 2.31.1