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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: chris.mason@oracle.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] a couple of i_nlink fixes in btrfs
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:13:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110304171353.GU22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)

	a) rename() plays with i_nlink of old_inode; bad, since it's not
locked.  I'd add a variant of btrfs_unlink_inode() that would leave
btrfs_drop_nlink()/btrfs_update_inode() to callers and use it instead.
	b) btrfs_link() doesn't check for i_nlink overflows.  I don't
know if there's anything preventing that many links to a file on btrfs,
but if there is, it's at least worth a comment in there...

	Please, review; patches in followups or in #btrfs in vfs-2.6.git

             reply	other threads:[~2011-03-04 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-04 17:13 Al Viro [this message]
2011-03-04 17:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: don't mess with i_nlink of unlocked inode in rename() Al Viro
2011-03-04 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] btrfs: check link counter overflow in link(2) Al Viro
2011-03-07 16:58 ` [RFC] a couple of i_nlink fixes in btrfs Chris Mason
2011-03-21  5:17   ` Al Viro
2011-03-21 11:37     ` Chris Mason

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