From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>
There is issue as follows when do setxattr with inject fault:
[localhost]#fsck.ext4 -fn /dev/sda
e2fsck 1.46.6-rc1 (12-Sep-2022)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Unattached zero-length inode 15. Clear? no
Unattached inode 15
Connect to /lost+found? no
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********
/dev/sda: 15/655360 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 66755/2621440 blocks
This occurs in 'ext4_xattr_inode_create()'. If 'ext4_mark_inode_dirty()'
fails, dropping i_nlink of the inode is needed. Or will lead to inode leak.
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 99dacb0393fa..aad7de2e366a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1442,6 +1442,9 @@ static struct inode *ext4_xattr_inode_create(handle_t *handle,
if (!err)
err = ext4_inode_attach_jinode(ea_inode);
if (err) {
+ if (ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref(handle, ea_inode))
+ ext4_warning_inode(ea_inode,
+ "cleanup dec ref error %d", err);
iput(ea_inode);
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
--
2.31.1
