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ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 03:18:13 +0000 (22:18 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:25:21 +0000 (12:25 -0500)
commitc7df4a1ecb8579838ec8c56b2bb6a6716e974f37
tree7a66ced22f28d23c280b84e42f9a595886236456
parent4ea99936a1630f51fc3a2d61a58ec4a1c4b7d55a
ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely

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@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
fs/ext4/namei.c