[PATCH v4] xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink

From: cheng.lin130
Date: Mon Sep 18 2023 - 02:53:23 EST


From: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@xxxxxxxxxx>

When abnormal drop_nlink are detected on the inode,
return error, to avoid corruption propagation.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 9e62cc500..d16cb62ce 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -919,6 +919,14 @@ xfs_droplink(
xfs_trans_t *tp,
xfs_inode_t *ip)
{
+
+ if (VFS_I(ip)->i_nlink == 0) {
+ xfs_alert(ip->i_mount,
+ "%s: Deleting inode %llu with no links.",
+ __func__, ip->i_ino);
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ }
+
xfs_trans_ichgtime(tp, ip, XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG);

drop_nlink(VFS_I(ip));
--
2.18.1