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From: Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: ubifs: ubifs_purge_xattrs() wrongly called
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:38:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210120133847.GA19063@pengutronix.de> (raw)

Hi All,

I just noticed that ubifs_purge_xattrs() is wrongly called from
ubifs_unlink() when a dentry is deleted. Deleting a dentry doesn't mean
that the inode the xattrs are attached to is going away. Removing a file
that has hardlinks will result in removing the xattrs when instead they
should stay until the last link is removed.

ubifs_purge_xattrs() only removes the xattrs when their number exceeds
ubifs_xattr_max_cnt(). Otherwise it does nothing, so it's unlikely to
hit this bug in real life.

I am not sure how to fix that. Maybe calling ubifs_purge_xattrs() from
ubifs_evict_inode() would be correct, but I haven't looked deeper into
this.

Sascha

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2021-01-20 13:38 Sascha Hauer [this message]
2021-01-21  8:43 ` ubifs: ubifs_purge_xattrs() wrongly called Richard Weinberger

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