I've applied your second patch but now I'm getting a filesystem panic.
Please try something like this on a VFAT drive:
echo "a" > A
mv A a (this will fail)
mv A x
mv x a
vi a
Aug 11 17:35:09 laetitia kernel: Filesystem panic (dev 03:01).
Aug 11 17:35:09 laetitia kernel: fat_free: deleting beyond EOF
Aug 11 17:35:09 laetitia kernel: File system has been set read-only
Markus
> > OR
> >
> > - you haven't cleared "inode->i_nlink" when you marked the old inode
> > deleted, so the VFS layer doesn't know that it should call the delete
> > function..
> >
> > The i_nlink thing looks like the more likely suspect.
>
> Indeed. I couldn't figure out how to get the system from reusing the
> inode, and clear_inode(old_inode) was the only thing I could get to work.
> Clearing old_inode->i_nlink also works, and since it is the correct way,
> here is a patch to apply over the previously applied patch.
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