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ext2: Fix link count corruption under heavy link+rename load
authorJosh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:48:22 +0000 (11:48 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:45:25 +0000 (12:45 -0700)
commit14bcdf0bc282f0ea21574d4fec4df15900ceb4c4
tree04888166028a9423c07a6345ba2c6fe96837e0ef
parent002b43bfac57403ff58fe9cda16d71bdfac99dcc
ext2: Fix link count corruption under heavy link+rename load

commit e8a80c6f769dd4622d8b211b398452158ee60c0b upstream.

vfs_rename_other() does not lock renamed inode with i_mutex. Thus changing
i_nlink in a non-atomic manner (which happens in ext2_rename()) can corrupt
it as reported and analyzed by Josh.

In fact, there is no good reason to mess with i_nlink of the moved file.
We did it presumably to simulate linking into the new directory and unlinking
from an old one. But the practical effect of this is disputable because fsck
can possibly treat file as being properly linked into both directories without
writing any error which is confusing. So we just stop increment-decrement
games with i_nlink which also fixes the corruption.

CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/ext2/namei.c