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ext2: Fix link count corruption under heavy link+rename load
authorJosh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:48:22 +0000 (11:48 +0100)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:46:53 +0000 (12:46 -0400)
commit5971961820772d10060a58551acd502feb9c8f09
treeb36258ba59e3f6f9affd76703da706022fcc4692
parent64323cd54f3a6450bd64aac242df7bd1ade457f3
ext2: Fix link count corruption under heavy link+rename load

commit e8a80c6f769dd4622d8b211b398452158ee60c0b upstream.

vfs_rename_other() does not lock renamed inode with i_mutex. Thus changing
i_nlink in a non-atomic manner (which happens in ext2_rename()) can corrupt
it as reported and analyzed by Josh.

In fact, there is no good reason to mess with i_nlink of the moved file.
We did it presumably to simulate linking into the new directory and unlinking
from an old one. But the practical effect of this is disputable because fsck
can possibly treat file as being properly linked into both directories without
writing any error which is confusing. So we just stop increment-decrement
games with i_nlink which also fixes the corruption.

CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
fs/ext2/namei.c