On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:38:03AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit c7df4a1ecb8579838ec8c56b2bb6a6716e974f37 ] > > If the file system is corrupted such that a file's i_links_count is > too small, then it's possible that when unlinking that file, i_nlink > will already be zero. Previously we were working around this kind of > corruption by forcing i_nlink to one; but we were doing this before > trying to delete the directory entry --- and if the file system is > corrupted enough that ext4_delete_entry() fails, then we exit with > i_nlink elevated, and this causes the orphan inode list handling to be > FUBAR'ed, such that when we unmount the file system, the orphan inode > list can get corrupted. > > A better way to fix this is to simply skip trying to call drop_nlink() > if i_nlink is already zero, thus moving the check to the place where > it makes the most sense. > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205433 > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112032903.8828-1-tytso@xxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx > Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> I'm confused; this was explicitly cc'ed to stable@xxxxxxxxxx, so why is your AUTOSEL picking this up? I would have thought this would get picked up via the normal stable kernel processes. Thanks, - Ted
