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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2016-03-07 23:07:10 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2016-03-07 23:07:10 -0500 |
| commit | f93812846f31381d35c04c6c577d724254355e7f (patch) | |
| tree | 4043f57ba651a15b78e190d65da120791c085318 /fs/jffs2 | |
| parent | 803c00123a8012b3a283c0530910653973ef6d8f (diff) | |
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jffs2: reduce the breakage on recovery from halfway failed rename()
d_instantiate(new_dentry, old_inode) is absolutely wrong thing to
do - it will oops if new_dentry used to be positive, for starters.
What we need is d_invalidate() the target and be done with that.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jffs2')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jffs2/dir.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/dir.c b/fs/jffs2/dir.c index d211b8e18566..30c4c9ebb693 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/dir.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/dir.c @@ -843,9 +843,14 @@ static int jffs2_rename (struct inode *old_dir_i, struct dentry *old_dentry, pr_notice("%s(): Link succeeded, unlink failed (err %d). You now have a hard link\n", __func__, ret); - /* Might as well let the VFS know */ - d_instantiate(new_dentry, d_inode(old_dentry)); - ihold(d_inode(old_dentry)); + /* + * We can't keep the target in dcache after that. + * For one thing, we can't afford dentry aliases for directories. + * For another, if there was a victim, we _can't_ set new inode + * for that sucker and we have to trigger mount eviction - the + * caller won't do it on its own since we are returning an error. + */ + d_invalidate(new_dentry); new_dir_i->i_mtime = new_dir_i->i_ctime = ITIME(now); return ret; } |