[PATCH 3.16 283/366] Btrfs: don't leave dangling dentry if symlink creation failed

Ben Hutchings
2018-10-14T15:25:41Z

From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>

commit d50866d00fb39fcf72307001763ee9cc92625a43 upstream.

When we are creating a symlink we might fail with an error after we
created its inode and added the corresponding directory indexes to its
parent inode. In this case we end up never removing the directory indexes
because the inode eviction handler, called for our symlink inode on the
final iput(), only removes items associated with the symlink inode and
not with the parent inode.

Example:

$ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdi
$ mount /dev/sdi /mnt
$ touch /mnt/foo
$ ln -s /mnt/foo /mnt/bar
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘bar’: Cannot allocate memory
$ umount /mnt
$ btrfsck /dev/sdi
Checking filesystem on /dev/sdi
UUID: d5acb5ba-31bd-42da-b456-89dca2e716e1
checking extents
checking free space cache
checking fs roots
root 5 inode 258 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong
unresolved ref dir 256 index 3 namelen 3 name bar filetype 7 errors 4, no inode ref
found 131073 bytes used err is 1
total csum bytes: 0
total tree bytes: 131072
total fs tree bytes: 32768
total extent tree bytes: 16384
btree space waste bytes: 124305
file data blocks allocated: 262144
referenced 262144
btrfs-progs v4.2.3

So fix this by adding the directory index entries as the very last
step of symlink creation.

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
fs/btrfs/inode.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -8877,10 +8877,6 @@ static int btrfs_symlink(struct inode *d
if (err)
goto out_unlock_inode;

- err = btrfs_add_nondir(trans, dir, dentry, inode, 0, index);
- if (err)
- goto out_unlock_inode;
-
path = btrfs_alloc_path();
if (!path) {
err = -ENOMEM;
@@ -8918,6 +8914,13 @@ static int btrfs_symlink(struct inode *d
inode_set_bytes(inode, name_len);
btrfs_i_size_write(inode, name_len);
err = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
+ /*
+ * Last step, add directory indexes for our symlink inode. This is the
+ * last step to avoid extra cleanup of these indexes if an error happens
+ * elsewhere above.
+ */
+ if (!err)
+ err = btrfs_add_nondir(trans, dir, dentry, inode, 0, index);
if (err) {
drop_inode = 1;
goto out_unlock_inode;