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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)
committerMarcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri@canonical.com>
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:22:53 +0000 (14:22 -0300)
commit6dcee7e9cecf8abc5f637dee027f5c885bb3e02f
tree9e5fb7700d17c27cd32e40fbd1f7948625553789
parent50a54755f8fc0336ad2516e9a6c2f3faa353f41e
ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1857158
commit c7df4a1ecb8579838ec8c56b2bb6a6716e974f37 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
fs/ext4/namei.c