From patchwork Wed Jun 10 00:01:41 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: gregkh@suse.de X-Patchwork-Id: 28357 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.ozlabs.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by bilbo.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AF41B70C4 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:09:38 +1000 (EST) Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix) id 6688EDDD0C; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:09:38 +1000 (EST) Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BD8DDD0B for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:09:38 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756172AbZFJAJd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:09:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755678AbZFJAJd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:09:33 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:37738 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750725AbZFJAJd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:09:33 -0400 Received: from localhost (59-124-51-242.HINET-IP.hinet.net [59.124.51.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by coco.kroah.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1CCB1488FC; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:09:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: patch ext4-return-eio-not-estale-on-directory-traversal-through-deleted-inode.patch added to 2.6.27-stable tree To: bdonlan@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:01:41 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1243944576-20915-8-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Message-Id: <20090610000935.1CCB1488FC@coco.kroah.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: ext4: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode to the 2.6.27-stable tree. Its filename is ext4-return-eio-not-estale-on-directory-traversal-through-deleted-inode.patch A git repo of this tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Tue Jun 2 05:12:56 2009 From: Bryan Donlan Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:09:20 -0400 Subject: ext4: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode To: stable@kernel.org Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Andrew Morton , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Bryan Donlan Message-ID: <1243944576-20915-8-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> From: Bryan Donlan (cherry picked from commit e6f009b0b45220c004672d41a58865e94946104d) ext4_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext4_lookup(), this -ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to a misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the part of the admin. The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls -l said link. This patch thus changes ext4_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE from ext4_iget(), as ext4 does for other filesystem metadata corruption; and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is detected. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bdonlan@gmail.com are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1055,8 +1055,16 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_lookup(struct return ERR_PTR(-EIO); } inode = ext4_iget(dir->i_sb, ino); - if (IS_ERR(inode)) - return ERR_CAST(inode); + if (unlikely(IS_ERR(inode))) { + if (PTR_ERR(inode) == -ESTALE) { + ext4_error(dir->i_sb, __func__, + "deleted inode referenced: %u", + ino); + return ERR_PTR(-EIO); + } else { + return ERR_CAST(inode); + } + } } return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); }