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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2022-01-05 23:59:56 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2022-01-10 13:25:56 -0500
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ext4: don't use the orphan list when migrating an inode
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
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/migrate.c19
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
index 36dfc88ce05b..ff8916e1d38e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
@@ -437,12 +437,12 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
percpu_down_write(&sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
/*
- * Worst case we can touch the allocation bitmaps, a bgd
- * block, and a block to link in the orphan list. We do need
- * need to worry about credits for modifying the quota inode.
+ * Worst case we can touch the allocation bitmaps and a block
+ * group descriptor block. We do need need to worry about
+ * credits for modifying the quota inode.
*/
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MIGRATE,
- 4 + EXT4_MAXQUOTAS_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
+ 3 + EXT4_MAXQUOTAS_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
@@ -463,10 +463,6 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
* Use the correct seed for checksum (i.e. the seed from 'inode'). This
* is so that the metadata blocks will have the correct checksum after
* the migration.
- *
- * Note however that, if a crash occurs during the migration process,
- * the recovery process is broken because the tmp_inode checksums will
- * be wrong and the orphans cleanup will fail.
*/
ei = EXT4_I(inode);
EXT4_I(tmp_inode)->i_csum_seed = ei->i_csum_seed;
@@ -478,7 +474,6 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
clear_nlink(tmp_inode);
ext4_ext_tree_init(handle, tmp_inode);
- ext4_orphan_add(handle, tmp_inode);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
/*
@@ -503,12 +498,6 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_MIGRATE, 1);
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
- /*
- * It is impossible to update on-disk structures without
- * a handle, so just rollback in-core changes and live other
- * work to orphan_list_cleanup()
- */
- ext4_orphan_del(NULL, tmp_inode);
retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
goto out_tmp_inode;
}