From: Bryan Donlan Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:07:44 +0000 (-0400) Subject: ext4: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29.5~16 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12fbaee2875dc57270194aec4b1d3d9224879c2f;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git ext4: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode (cherry picked from commit e6f009b0b45220c004672d41a58865e94946104d) ext4_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext4_lookup(), this -ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to a misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the part of the admin. The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls -l said link. This patch thus changes ext4_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE from ext4_iget(), as ext4 does for other filesystem metadata corruption; and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is detected. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index ba702bd7910d9..f78723490e565 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1052,8 +1052,16 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, stru return ERR_PTR(-EIO); } inode = ext4_iget(dir->i_sb, ino); - if (IS_ERR(inode)) - return ERR_CAST(inode); + if (unlikely(IS_ERR(inode))) { + if (PTR_ERR(inode) == -ESTALE) { + ext4_error(dir->i_sb, __func__, + "deleted inode referenced: %u", + ino); + return ERR_PTR(-EIO); + } else { + return ERR_CAST(inode); + } + } } return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); }