Re: [REGRESSION 4.11] Commit d8514d8edb5b ("ovl: copy up regular file using O_TMPFILE") breaks ubifs

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 18:15:45 EST


Ralph,

Am 29.03.2017 um 23:26 schrieb Ralph Sennhauser:
>> # create and link a tmpfile - then remove it
>> sudo rm -rf foo; sudo xfs_io -T -c "flink foo" . ; ls -l foo; sudo rm
>> foo
>
> next-20170328, obviously without your patch:
>
> # xfs_io -T -c "flink foo" .
> .: Not supported

-T tells xfs_io to create a tmpfile but you have it disabled in UBIFS.

Anyway, can you please test the attached patch?
Amir was right, UBIFS misses a corner case in ubifs_link(). ;-\

I think I understand also why we never noticed this in xfstests, UBIFS prints
only a non-fatal error while umounting the filesystem in this case.
But will test tomorrow in more detail, need some sleep now.

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/dir.c b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
index 30825d882aa9..95e348a2da29 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
@@ -748,6 +748,9 @@ static int ubifs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,
goto out_fname;

lock_2_inodes(dir, inode);
+ if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
+ ubifs_delete_orphan(c, inode->i_ino);
+
inc_nlink(inode);
ihold(inode);
inode->i_ctime = ubifs_current_time(inode);

Thanks,
//richard