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ext4: check and assert if marking an no_delete evicting inode dirty
authorZhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:26:47 +0000 (19:26 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Jan 2023 10:16:02 +0000 (11:16 +0100)
commit0c026f975d24701766cf4ac63995ead9f6d57a59
tree7479b62af7d703ad4a648de6ef911e1c92085ef3
parent3711a8f7ecbbe32ac9f7a89a7f9fd58691156a03
ext4: check and assert if marking an no_delete evicting inode dirty

commit 318cdc822c63b6e2befcfdc2088378ae6fa18def upstream.

In ext4_evict_inode(), if we evicting an inode in the 'no_delete' path,
it cannot be raced by another mark_inode_dirty(). If it happens,
someone else may accidentally dirty it without holding inode refcount
and probably cause use-after-free issues in the writeback procedure.
It's indiscoverable and hard to debug, so add an WARN_ON_ONCE() to
check and detect this issue in advance.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220629112647.4141034-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/inode.c