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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca,
	jack@suse.cz, yi.zhang@huawei.com, lihaotian9@huawei.com,
	lutianxiong@huawei.com, linfeilong@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix bug for rename with RENAME_WHITEOUT
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:24:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X+ushgURuSXY4Lz9@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201229090208.1113218-1-yangerkun@huawei.com>

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 05:02:08PM +0800, yangerkun wrote:
> ext4_rename will create a special inode for whiteout and use this 'ino'
> to replace the source file's dir entry 'ino'. Once error happens
> latter(small ext4 img, and consume all space, so the rename with dst
> path not exist will fail due to the ENOSPC return from ext4_add_entry in
> ext4_rename), the cleanup do drop the nlink for whiteout, but forget to
> restore 'ino' with source file. This will lead to "deleted inode
> referenced".

Could you sendhave instructions how to reproduce this failure?  Many thanks!!

      	  	   		    - Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-29 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-29  9:02 [PATCH v2] ext4: fix bug for rename with RENAME_WHITEOUT yangerkun
2020-12-29 22:24 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2020-12-30  3:29   ` yangerkun
2021-01-04 14:19 ` Jan Kara
2021-01-05  5:58   ` yangerkun

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