The patch titled udf: initialize parts of inode earlier in create has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is udf-initialize-parts-of-inode-earlier-in-create.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: udf: initialize parts of inode earlier in create From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> I saw an oops down this path when trying to create a new file on a UDF filesystem which was internally marked as readonly, but mounted rw: udf_create udf_new_inode new_inode alloc_inode udf_alloc_inode udf_new_block returns EIO due to readonlyness iput (on error) udf_put_inode udf_discard_prealloc udf_next_aext udf_current_aext udf_get_fileshortad OOPS the udf_discard_prealloc() path was examining uninitialized fields of the udf inode. udf_discard_prealloc() already has this code to short-circuit the discard path if no extents are preallocated: if (UDF_I_ALLOCTYPE(inode) == ICBTAG_FLAG_AD_IN_ICB || inode->i_size == UDF_I_LENEXTENTS(inode)) { return; } so if we initialize UDF_I_LENEXTENTS(inode) = 0 earlier in udf_new_inode, we won't try to free the (not) preallocated blocks, since this will match the i_size = 0 set when the inode was initialized. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/udf/ialloc.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/udf/ialloc.c~udf-initialize-parts-of-inode-earlier-in-create fs/udf/ialloc.c --- a/fs/udf/ialloc.c~udf-initialize-parts-of-inode-earlier-in-create +++ a/fs/udf/ialloc.c @@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ struct inode * udf_new_inode (struct ino } *err = -ENOSPC; + UDF_I_UNIQUE(inode) = 0; + UDF_I_LENEXTENTS(inode) = 0; + UDF_I_NEXT_ALLOC_BLOCK(inode) = 0; + UDF_I_NEXT_ALLOC_GOAL(inode) = 0; + UDF_I_STRAT4096(inode) = 0; + block = udf_new_block(dir->i_sb, NULL, UDF_I_LOCATION(dir).partitionReferenceNum, start, err); if (*err) @@ -84,11 +90,6 @@ struct inode * udf_new_inode (struct ino } mutex_lock(&sbi->s_alloc_mutex); - UDF_I_UNIQUE(inode) = 0; - UDF_I_LENEXTENTS(inode) = 0; - UDF_I_NEXT_ALLOC_BLOCK(inode) = 0; - UDF_I_NEXT_ALLOC_GOAL(inode) = 0; - UDF_I_STRAT4096(inode) = 0; if (UDF_SB_LVIDBH(sb)) { struct logicalVolHeaderDesc *lvhd; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx are udf-initialize-parts-of-inode-earlier-in-create.patch mount-udf-udf_part_flag_read_only-partitions-with-ms_rdonly.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html