From: <cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn>
To: <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: <david@fromorbit.com>, <djwong@kernel.org>,
<linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<jiang.yong5@zte.com.cn>, <wang.liang82@zte.com.cn>,
<liu.dong3@zte.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:51:30 +0800 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202310111451303518442@zte.com.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZST117zXotVPXGEQ@infradead.org>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 10:09:01AM +0800, cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn wrote:
> > From: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn>
> >
> > When abnormal drop_nlink are detected on the inode,
> > return error, to avoid corruption propagation.
> I know this has been through a few cycles, but wouldn't it be useful
> to have at least a little description here how that case could happen?
Unfortunately, I don't know how the underflow happened. The purpose
of this patch is to prevent the situation from getting worse and provide
users can repair it at the appropriate moment afterwards.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-11 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-10 2:09 [PATCH v6] xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink cheng.lin130
2023-10-10 6:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-10-11 6:51 ` cheng.lin130 [this message]
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