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[3/5] ext4: ext4_mkdir should dirty dir_block with the parent inode

Message ID 20111021211812.10784.27324.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com
State Superseded, archived
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Commit Message

Darrick J. Wong Oct. 21, 2011, 9:18 p.m. UTC 
ext4_mkdir calls ext4_handle_dirty_metadata with dir_block and the inode "dir".
Unfortunately, dir_block belongs to the newly created directory (which is
"inode"), not the parent directory (which is "dir").  Fix the incorrect
association.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)



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Comments

Theodore Ts'o Oct. 25, 2011, 1:09 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:18:12PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> ext4_mkdir calls ext4_handle_dirty_metadata with dir_block and the inode "dir".
> Unfortunately, dir_block belongs to the newly created directory (which is
> "inode"), not the parent directory (which is "dir").  Fix the incorrect
> association.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>

This is already checked in (git commit: f9287c1f2d3 in the master branch).

     			   		- Ted
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Patch

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 6d3fab4..50c7294 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@  retry:
 	ext4_set_de_type(dir->i_sb, de, S_IFDIR);
 	inode->i_nlink = 2;
 	BUFFER_TRACE(dir_block, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
-	err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, dir_block);
+	err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, dir_block);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_clear_inode;
 	err = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);