[PATCH] ntfs: use base mft_no when looking up base inode for extent record
From: DaeMyung Kang
Date: Thu Apr 30 2026 - 07:56:00 EST
When the mft record is an extent record, ntfs_may_write_mft_record()
looks up its base inode in the icache. The hash key passed to
find_inode_nowait() must be the base inode's mft number (na.mft_no,
set just above to MREF_LE(m->base_mft_record)), but the code passes
@mft_no, the extent record's own number.
find_inode_nowait() uses its second argument as the hashval, so the
lookup lands in the wrong bucket and almost always returns NULL.
ntfs_may_write_mft_record() then returns false and the writeback
path (ntfs_write_mft_block()) skips that extent record, leaving the
on-disk copy permanently out of sync with the in-memory one.
The original ilookup5_nowait() call this conversion replaced used
na.mft_no. Restore that.
Fixes: 115380f9a2f9 ("ntfs: update mft operations")
Signed-off-by: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ntfs/mft.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/mft.c b/fs/ntfs/mft.c
index 7d989267a82b..ef423303565d 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/mft.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/mft.c
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ static bool ntfs_may_write_mft_record(struct ntfs_volume *vol, const u64 mft_no,
vi = igrab(mft_vi);
WARN_ON(vi != mft_vi);
} else {
- vi = find_inode_nowait(sb, mft_no, ntfs_test_inode_wb, &na);
+ vi = find_inode_nowait(sb, na.mft_no, ntfs_test_inode_wb, &na);
if (na.state == NI_BeingDeleted || na.state == NI_BeingCreated)
return false;
}
--
2.43.0