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 6.6-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: fs-ntfs3-stale-inode-instead-of-bad.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 6a21159ec01704c0df58adc7ff8459b85675b277 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 1545262995da2..20988ef3dc2ec 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/inode.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/inode.c @@ -532,11 +532,15 @@ 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;