On Thu 20-01-22 01:06:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:57:48AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > When we fail to expand inode from inline format to a normal format, we > > restore inode to contain the original inline formatting but we forgot to > > set i_lenAlloc back. The mismatch between i_lenAlloc and i_size was then > > causing further problems such as warnings and lost data down the line. > > Looks good, > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > Btw, how did the reported even hit that failure in a way where the > file system continues working? If we fail to write back data we'd > probably better stop modifying anything and bail out.. We can fail the expansion from inline to out-of-line format e.g. when the filesystem is full (ENOSPC). So we have to handle that case gracefully and the filesystem should be fully operational after this. Thanks for review! Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR