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Commit 50689696 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: make sure directory and symlink blocks are revoked



When an inode gets unlinked, the functions ext4_clear_blocks() and
ext4_remove_blocks() call ext4_forget() for all the buffer heads
corresponding to the deleted inode's data blocks.  If the inode is a
directory or a symlink, the is_metadata parameter must be non-zero so
ext4_forget() will revoke them via jbd2_journal_revoke().  Otherwise,
if these blocks are reused for a data file, and the system crashes
before a journal checkpoint, the journal replay could end up
corrupting these data blocks.

Thanks to Curt Wohlgemuth for pointing out potential problems in this
area.

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
parent beac2da7
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