tree 6fb7a9cdd935f87a531900632b6da422672ec272
parent 6deeb4874ad7bd4d1097eae062bdfa265a1e4212
author Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 1573528693 -0500
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1578141658 +0100

ext4: work around deleting a file with i_nlink == 0 safely

[ Upstream commit c7df4a1ecb8579838ec8c56b2bb6a6716e974f37 ]

If the file system is corrupted such that a file's i_links_count is
too small, then it's possible that when unlinking that file, i_nlink
will already be zero.  Previously we were working around this kind of
corruption by forcing i_nlink to one; but we were doing this before
trying to delete the directory entry --- and if the file system is
corrupted enough that ext4_delete_entry() fails, then we exit with
i_nlink elevated, and this causes the orphan inode list handling to be
FUBAR'ed, such that when we unmount the file system, the orphan inode
list can get corrupted.

A better way to fix this is to simply skip trying to call drop_nlink()
if i_nlink is already zero, thus moving the check to the place where
it makes the most sense.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205433

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112032903.8828-1-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>