[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: fix a misuse a of brelse after failing ocfs2_check_dir_entry

[Greg KH]

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 03:16:52AM +0000, Changwei Ge wrote:
> From: Changwei Ge <ge.changwei at h3c.com>
> 
> Somehow, file system metadata was corrupted, which causes
> ocfs2_check_dir_entry() to fail in function ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el().
> 
> According to the original design intention, if above happens we should
> skip the problematic block and continue to retrieve dir entry. But there
> is obviouse misuse of brelse around related code.
> 
> After failure of ocfs2_check_dir_entry(), currunt code just moves to next
> position and uses the problematic buffer head again and again during
> which the problematic buffer head is released for multiple times. I
> suppose, this a serious issue which is long-lived in ocfs2. This may
> cause other file systems which is also used in a the same host insane.
> 
> So we should also consider about bakcporting this patch into
> linux -stable.
> 
> Suggested-by: Changkuo Shi <shi.changkuo at h3c.com>
> Signed-off-by: Changwei Ge <ge.changwei at h3c.com>
> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

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