From: Jan Kara Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 23:08:58 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ext2: Fix error handling on inode bitmap corruption X-Git-Tag: v6.6-pxa1908~28793^2~10 X-Git-Url: https://git.dujemihanovic.xyz/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef6919c283257155def420bd247140e9fd2e9843;p=linux.git ext2: Fix error handling on inode bitmap corruption When insert_inode_locked() fails in ext2_new_inode() it most likely means inode bitmap got corrupted and we allocated again inode which is already in use. Also doing unlock_new_inode() during error recovery is wrong since the inode does not have I_NEW set. Fix the problem by informing about filesystem error and jumping to fail: (instead of fail_drop:) which doesn't call unlock_new_inode(). Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- diff --git a/fs/ext2/ialloc.c b/fs/ext2/ialloc.c index c4e81dfb74ba..78502c166814 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext2/ialloc.c @@ -573,8 +573,11 @@ got: inode->i_generation = sbi->s_next_generation++; spin_unlock(&sbi->s_next_gen_lock); if (insert_inode_locked(inode) < 0) { - err = -EINVAL; - goto fail_drop; + ext2_error(sb, "ext2_new_inode", + "inode number already in use - inode=%lu", + (unsigned long) ino); + err = -EIO; + goto fail; } dquot_initialize(inode);