Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Fix dentry handling on create error, unlink, and inode destroy

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:25:42 -0600 Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> @@ -120,22 +120,9 @@ ecryptfs_do_create(struct inode *directory_inode,
>  	rc = ecryptfs_create_underlying_file(lower_dir_dentry->d_inode,
>  					     ecryptfs_dentry, mode, nd);
>  	if (rc) {
> -		struct inode *ecryptfs_inode = ecryptfs_dentry->d_inode;
> -		struct ecryptfs_inode_info *inode_info =
> -			ecryptfs_inode_to_private(ecryptfs_inode);
> -
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Error creating underlying file; "
> -		       "rc = [%d]; checking for existing\n", __FUNCTION__, rc);
> -		if (inode_info) {
> -			mutex_lock(&inode_info->lower_file_mutex);
> -			if (!inode_info->lower_file) {
> -				mutex_unlock(&inode_info->lower_file_mutex);
> -				printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Failure to set underlying "
> -				       "file; rc = [%d]\n", __FUNCTION__, rc);
> -				goto out_lock;
> -			}
> -			mutex_unlock(&inode_info->lower_file_mutex);
> -		}
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Failure to create dentry in lower fs; "
> +		       "rc = [%d]\n", __FUNCTION__, rc);
> +		goto out_lock;
>  	}
>  	rc = ecryptfs_interpose(lower_dentry, ecryptfs_dentry,
>  				directory_inode->i_sb, 0);

Will this cause an undesirable log storm if the underlying fs runs out of
space?