The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 423a716cd7be16fb08690760691befe3be97d3fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:20:29 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: do not delete mismatched root refs btrfs_del_root_ref() will simply WARN_ON() if the ref doesn't match in any way, and then continue to delete the reference. This shouldn't happen, we have these values because there's more to the reference than the original root and the sub root. If any of these checks fail, return -ENOENT. CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.4+ Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/root-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/root-tree.c index 3b17b647d002..612411c74550 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/root-tree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/root-tree.c @@ -376,11 +376,13 @@ int btrfs_del_root_ref(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 root_id, leaf = path->nodes[0]; ref = btrfs_item_ptr(leaf, path->slots[0], struct btrfs_root_ref); - - WARN_ON(btrfs_root_ref_dirid(leaf, ref) != dirid); - WARN_ON(btrfs_root_ref_name_len(leaf, ref) != name_len); ptr = (unsigned long)(ref + 1); - WARN_ON(memcmp_extent_buffer(leaf, name, ptr, name_len)); + if ((btrfs_root_ref_dirid(leaf, ref) != dirid) || + (btrfs_root_ref_name_len(leaf, ref) != name_len) || + memcmp_extent_buffer(leaf, name, ptr, name_len)) { + err = -ENOENT; + goto out; + } *sequence = btrfs_root_ref_sequence(leaf, ref); ret = btrfs_del_item(trans, tree_root, path);