+ ocfs2-fix-bug-when-iput-after-ocfs2_mknod-fails.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

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The patch titled
     Subject: ocfs2: fix BUG when iput after ocfs2_mknod fails
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     ocfs2-fix-bug-when-iput-after-ocfs2_mknod-fails.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ocfs2-fix-bug-when-iput-after-ocfs2_mknod-fails.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ocfs2: fix BUG when iput after ocfs2_mknod fails
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:02:26 +0800

Commit b1529a41f777 "ocfs2: should reclaim the inode if
'__ocfs2_mknod_locked' returns an error" tried to reclaim the claimed
inode if __ocfs2_mknod_locked() fails later.  But this introduce a race,
the freed bit may be reused immediately by another thread, which will
update dinode, e.g.  i_generation.  Then iput this inode will lead to BUG:
inode->i_generation != le32_to_cpu(fe->i_generation)

We could make this inode as bad, but we did want to do operations like
wipe in some cases.  Since the claimed inode bit can only affect that an
dinode is missing and will return back after fsck, it seems not a big
problem.  So just leave it as is by revert the reclaim logic.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221017130227.234480-1-joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: b1529a41f777 ("ocfs2: should reclaim the inode if '__ocfs2_mknod_locked' returns an error")
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Yan Wang <wangyan122@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 fs/ocfs2/namei.c |   11 +----------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c~ocfs2-fix-bug-when-iput-after-ocfs2_mknod-fails
+++ a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
@@ -632,18 +632,9 @@ static int ocfs2_mknod_locked(struct ocf
 		return status;
 	}
 
-	status = __ocfs2_mknod_locked(dir, inode, dev, new_fe_bh,
+	return __ocfs2_mknod_locked(dir, inode, dev, new_fe_bh,
 				    parent_fe_bh, handle, inode_ac,
 				    fe_blkno, suballoc_loc, suballoc_bit);
-	if (status < 0) {
-		u64 bg_blkno = ocfs2_which_suballoc_group(fe_blkno, suballoc_bit);
-		int tmp = ocfs2_free_suballoc_bits(handle, inode_ac->ac_inode,
-				inode_ac->ac_bh, suballoc_bit, bg_blkno, 1);
-		if (tmp)
-			mlog_errno(tmp);
-	}
-
-	return status;
 }
 
 static int ocfs2_mkdir(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

ocfs2-fix-bug-when-iput-after-ocfs2_mknod-fails.patch
ocfs2-clear-dinode-links-count-in-case-of-error.patch




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