On Mon, 22 May 2023 14:15:20 -0400, Eric Whitney wrote:
> When run on a file system where the inline_data feature has been
> enabled, xfstests generic/269, generic/270, and generic/476 cause ext4
> to emit error messages indicating that inline directory entries are
> corrupted. This occurs because the inline offset used to locate
> inline directory entries in the inode body is not updated when an
> xattr in that shared region is deleted and the region is shifted in
> memory to recover the space it occupied. If the deleted xattr precedes
> the system.data attribute, which points to the inline directory entries,
> that attribute will be moved further up in the region. The inline
> offset continues to point to whatever is located in system.data's former
> location, with unfortunate effects when used to access directory entries
> or (presumably) inline data in the inode body.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] ext4: correct inline offset when handling xattrs in inode body
commit: 48ef88508c16866ec9641fdda38642aa1f776fd4
Best regards,
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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
