Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix O_TMPFILE corner case in ubifs_link()

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Thu Mar 30 2017 - 06:51:37 EST


Amir,

Am 30.03.2017 um 12:35 schrieb Amir Goldstein:
>> Reading deeper into the proved that I was wrong.
>> AFAIKT UBIFS' journal has currently no way to revive a deleted inode.
>> So, we have to think about a new solution.
>>
>
> Not that I know anything about ubifs, but why do you need the deleted
> inode record in the first place for an O_TMPFILE.
> vfs ensures you that you can only link back an O_TMPFILE, not a deleted
> inode.
>
> It does not appear to be the right thing to do to pass deletion=1 to
> ubifs_jnl_update(), but deletion=0 doesn't look right as well..

We need to think of a new case.
I choose deletion=1 to ensure that after a power-cut written data of the
tmpfile gets removed.

Thanks,
//richard