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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2009-11-23 07:17:34 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2009-11-23 07:17:34 -0500
commit50689696867d95b38d9c7be640a311494a04fb86 (patch)
tree69e582bb6c95d8d0ac59bcad97b5f7f1d79e7126 /fs/ext4/inode.c
parentbeac2da7565e42be59963824899825d0cc624295 (diff)
ext4: make sure directory and symlink blocks are revoked
When an inode gets unlinked, the functions ext4_clear_blocks() and ext4_remove_blocks() call ext4_forget() for all the buffer heads corresponding to the deleted inode's data blocks. If the inode is a directory or a symlink, the is_metadata parameter must be non-zero so ext4_forget() will revoke them via jbd2_journal_revoke(). Otherwise, if these blocks are reused for a data file, and the system crashes before a journal checkpoint, the journal replay could end up corrupting these data blocks. Thanks to Curt Wohlgemuth for pointing out potential problems in this area. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 13de1dd751f..c420aaba6e9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4121,6 +4121,8 @@ static void ext4_clear_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
__le32 *last)
{
__le32 *p;
+ int is_metadata = S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode);
+
if (try_to_extend_transaction(handle, inode)) {
if (bh) {
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
@@ -4151,11 +4153,11 @@ static void ext4_clear_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
*p = 0;
tbh = sb_find_get_block(inode->i_sb, nr);
- ext4_forget(handle, 0, inode, tbh, nr);
+ ext4_forget(handle, is_metadata, inode, tbh, nr);
}
}
- ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, block_to_free, count, 0);
+ ext4_free_blocks(handle, inode, block_to_free, count, is_metadata);
}
/**