In 27cfa258951a "ext2: fix fs corruption when trying to remove a non-empty directory with IO error" a funny thing has happened: - page = ext2_get_page(inode, i, dir_has_error, &page_addr); + page = ext2_get_page(inode, i, 0, &page_addr); - if (IS_ERR(page)) { - dir_has_error = 1; - continue; - } + if (IS_ERR(page)) + goto not_empty; And at not_empty: we hit ext2_put_page(page, page_addr), which does put_page(page). Which, unless I'm very mistaken, should oops immediately when given ERR_PTR(-E...) as page. OK, shit happens, insufficiently tested patches included. But when commit in question describes the fault-injection test that exercised that particular failure exit... Ow. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/ext2/dir.c b/fs/ext2/dir.c index 8f597753ac12..5202eddfc3c0 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/dir.c +++ b/fs/ext2/dir.c @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ int ext2_empty_dir (struct inode * inode) page = ext2_get_page(inode, i, 0, &page_addr); if (IS_ERR(page)) - goto not_empty; + return 0; kaddr = page_addr; de = (ext2_dirent *)kaddr;