Re: [PATCH 2/2] udf: Restore i_lenAlloc when inode expansion fails

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On Thu 20-01-22 01:06:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:57:48AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > When we fail to expand inode from inline format to a normal format, we
> > restore inode to contain the original inline formatting but we forgot to
> > set i_lenAlloc back. The mismatch between i_lenAlloc and i_size was then
> > causing further problems such as warnings and lost data down the line.
> 
> Looks good,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> 
> Btw, how did the reported even hit that failure in a way where the
> file system continues working?  If we fail to write back data we'd
> probably better stop modifying anything and bail out..

We can fail the expansion from inline to out-of-line format e.g. when the
filesystem is full (ENOSPC). So we have to handle that case gracefully and
the filesystem should be fully operational after this.

Thanks for review!


								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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