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| author | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2022-01-05 23:59:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-01-27 08:46:20 +0100 |
| commit | 71245095033b9b8c78f7097604ba4d98647e916d (patch) | |
| tree | 39c3081fba6242a4df6bb49bfd9b889565030cfc /net/unix/garbage.c | |
| parent | c612b5562eb1d221e3e99a112aef14fb8ed90a9b (diff) | |
ext4: don't use the orphan list when migrating an inode
commit 6eeaf88fd586f05aaf1d48cb3a139d2a5c6eb055 upstream.
We probably want to remove the indirect block to extents migration
feature after a deprecation window, but until then, let's fix a
potential data loss problem caused by the fact that we put the
tmp_inode on the orphan list. In the unlikely case where we crash and
do a journal recovery, the data blocks belonging to the inode being
migrated are also represented in the tmp_inode on the orphan list ---
and so its data blocks will get marked unallocated, and available for
reuse.
Instead, stop putting the tmp_inode on the oprhan list. So in the
case where we crash while migrating the inode, we'll leak an inode,
which is not a disaster. It will be easily fixed the next time we run
fsck, and it's better than potentially having blocks getting claimed
by two different files, and losing data as a result.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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