This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs/ntfs3: Stale inode instead of bad
to the 6.11-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:
fs-ntfs3-stale-inode-instead-of-bad.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 265a970f1107c0693c108e2d69d8da32de268a05
Author: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Aug 22 14:43:32 2024 +0300
fs/ntfs3: Stale inode instead of bad
[ Upstream commit 1fd21919de6de245b63066b8ee3cfba92e36f0e9 ]
Fixed the logic of processing inode with wrong sequence number.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
index 6b0bdc474e763..56b6c4c6f528f 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c
@@ -536,11 +536,15 @@ struct inode *ntfs_iget5(struct super_block *sb, const struct MFT_REF *ref,
if (inode->i_state & I_NEW)
inode = ntfs_read_mft(inode, name, ref);
else if (ref->seq != ntfs_i(inode)->mi.mrec->seq) {
- /* Inode overlaps? */
- _ntfs_bad_inode(inode);
+ /*
+ * Sequence number is not expected.
+ * Looks like inode was reused but caller uses the old reference
+ */
+ iput(inode);
+ inode = ERR_PTR(-ESTALE);
}
- if (IS_ERR(inode) && name)
+ if (IS_ERR(inode))
ntfs_set_state(sb->s_fs_info, NTFS_DIRTY_ERROR);
return inode;
