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[4/5] ext4: use EXT4_BAD_INO for buddy cache to avoid colliding with valid inode #

Message ID 1312204398-12460-5-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu
State Accepted, archived
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Commit Message

Theodore Ts'o Aug. 1, 2011, 1:13 p.m. UTC 
From: Yu Jian <yujian@whamcloud.com>

Signed-off-by: Yu Jian <yujian@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 262fa47..8beccd8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2342,7 +2342,11 @@  static int ext4_mb_init_backend(struct super_block *sb)
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't get new inode");
 		goto err_freesgi;
 	}
-	sbi->s_buddy_cache->i_ino = get_next_ino();
+	/* To avoid potentially colliding with an valid on-disk inode number,
+	 * use EXT4_BAD_INO for the buddy cache inode number.  This inode is
+	 * not in the inode hash, so it should never be found by iget(), but
+	 * this will avoid confusion if it ever shows up during debugging. */
+	sbi->s_buddy_cache->i_ino = EXT4_BAD_INO;
 	EXT4_I(sbi->s_buddy_cache)->i_disksize = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
 		desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, i, NULL);