This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink
to the 6.6-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:
xfs-introduce-protection-for-drop-nlink.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0554272f8e9dd7e5a94b88a96446cf4e6c8c83fe
Author: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Feb 8 15:20:41 2024 -0800
xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink
commit 2b99e410b28f5a75ae417e6389e767c7745d6fce upstream.
When abnormal drop_nlink are detected on the inode,
return error, to avoid corruption propagation.
Signed-off-by: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Catherine Hoang <catherine.hoang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 4d55f58d99b7..fb85c5c81745 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -918,6 +918,13 @@ xfs_droplink(
xfs_trans_t *tp,
xfs_inode_t *ip)
{
+ if (VFS_I(ip)->i_nlink == 0) {
+ xfs_alert(ip->i_mount,
+ "%s: Attempt to drop inode (%llu) with nlink zero.",
+ __func__, ip->i_ino);
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ }
+
xfs_trans_ichgtime(tp, ip, XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG);
drop_nlink(VFS_I(ip));
