From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit ee0ed02ca93ef1ecf8963ad96638795d55af2c14 upstream. It is possible that unlinked inode enters ext4_setattr() (e.g. if somebody calls ftruncate(2) on unlinked but still open file). In such case we should not delete the inode from the orphan list if truncate fails. Note that this is mostly a theoretical concern as filesystem is corrupted if we reach this path anyway but let's be consistent in our orphan handling. Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -5596,7 +5596,7 @@ int ext4_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); ext4_journal_stop(handle); if (error) { - if (orphan) + if (orphan && inode->i_nlink) ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode); goto err_out; }