This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix unttached inode after power cut with orphan file feature enabled
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-fix-unttached-inode-after-power-cut-with-orphan.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit eea3beba9c00a7dc759ced470dcad91b94b667cd
Author: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jun 28 21:20:11 2023 +0800
ext4: fix unttached inode after power cut with orphan file feature enabled
[ Upstream commit 1524773425ae8113b0b782886366e68656b34e53 ]
Running generic/475(filesystem consistent tests after power cut) could
easily trigger unattached inode error while doing fsck:
Unattached zero-length inode 39405. Clear? no
Unattached inode 39405
Connect to /lost+found? no
Above inconsistence is caused by following process:
P1 P2
ext4_create
inode = ext4_new_inode_start_handle // itable records nlink=1
ext4_add_nondir
err = ext4_add_entry // ENOSPC
ext4_append
ext4_bread
ext4_getblk
ext4_map_blocks // returns ENOSPC
drop_nlink(inode) // won't be updated into disk inode
ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode)
ext4_orphan_file_add
ext4_journal_stop(handle)
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction // commit success
>> power cut <<
ext4_fill_super
ext4_load_and_init_journal // itable records nlink=1
ext4_orphan_cleanup
ext4_process_orphan
if (inode->i_nlink) // true, inode won't be deleted
Then, allocated inode will be reserved on disk and corresponds to no
dentries, so e2fsck reports 'unattached inode' problem.
The problem won't happen if orphan file feature is disabled, because
ext4_orphan_add() will update disk inode in orphan list mode. There
are several places not updating disk inode while putting inode into
orphan area, such as ext4_add_nondir(), ext4_symlink() and whiteout
in ext4_rename(). Fix it by updating inode into disk in all error
branches of these places.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217605
Fixes: 02f310fcf47f ("ext4: Speedup ext4 orphan inode handling")
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230628132011.650383-1-chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 0e1aeb9cb4a7c..6a08fc31a66de 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2799,6 +2799,7 @@ static int ext4_add_nondir(handle_t *handle,
return err;
}
drop_nlink(inode);
+ ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
unlock_new_inode(inode);
return err;
@@ -3436,6 +3437,7 @@ static int ext4_symlink(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *dir,
err_drop_inode:
clear_nlink(inode);
+ ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
ext4_orphan_add(handle, inode);
unlock_new_inode(inode);
if (handle)
@@ -4021,6 +4023,7 @@ static int ext4_rename(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *old_dir,
ext4_resetent(handle, &old,
old.inode->i_ino, old_file_type);
drop_nlink(whiteout);
+ ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, whiteout);
ext4_orphan_add(handle, whiteout);
}
unlock_new_inode(whiteout);
