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ext2: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode

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ext2_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to
report errors to NFS properly.  However, in ext[234]_lookup(), this
-ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such
that a directory entry references a deleted inode.  This leads to a
misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the
part of the admin.

The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a
link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls
-l said link.

This patch thus changes ext2_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE
from ext2_iget(), as ext2 does for other filesystem metadata corruption;
and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is
detected.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bryan Donlan 2009-06-30 11:41:24 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 341c87bf34
commit 4d6c13f87d
1 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -66,8 +66,16 @@ static struct dentry *ext2_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, str
inode = NULL;
if (ino) {
inode = ext2_iget(dir->i_sb, ino);
if (IS_ERR(inode))
return ERR_CAST(inode);
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(inode))) {
if (PTR_ERR(inode) == -ESTALE) {
ext2_error(dir->i_sb, __func__,
"deleted inode referenced: %lu",
ino);
return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
} else {
return ERR_CAST(inode);
}
}
}
return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
}