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ext4: cleanup in-core orphan list if ext4_truncate() failed to get a …
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commit b9a037b upstream.

In ext4_orphan_cleanup(), if ext4_truncate() failed to get a transaction
handle, it didn't remove the inode from the in-core orphan list, which
may probably trigger below error dump in ext4_destroy_inode() during the
final iput() and could lead to memory corruption on the later orphan
list changes.

 EXT4-fs (sda): Inode 6291467 (00000000b8247c67): orphan list check failed!
 00000000b8247c67: 0001f30a 00000004 00000000 00000023  ............#...
 00000000e24cde71: 00000006 014082a3 00000000 00000000  ......@.........
 0000000072c6a5ee: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
 ...

This patch fix this by cleanup in-core orphan list manually if
ext4_truncate() return error.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210507071904.160808-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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zhangyi089 authored and gregkh committed Jul 14, 2021
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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion fs/ext4/super.c
Expand Up @@ -3084,8 +3084,15 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
inode_lock(inode);
truncate_inode_pages(inode->i_mapping, inode->i_size);
ret = ext4_truncate(inode);
if (ret)
if (ret) {
/*
* We need to clean up the in-core orphan list
* manually if ext4_truncate() failed to get a
* transaction handle.
*/
ext4_orphan_del(NULL, inode);
ext4_std_error(inode->i_sb, ret);
}
inode_unlock(inode);
nr_truncates++;
} else {
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