From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: [PATCH 03/28] ext4: ext4_mkdir should dirty dir_block with the parent inode Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:54:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20111008075403.20506.36338.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20111008075343.20506.23155.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sunil Mushran , Martin K Petersen , Greg Freemyer , Amir Goldstein , linux-kernel , Andi Kleen , Mingming Cao , Joel Becker , linux-fsdevel , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Coly Li To: Andreas Dilger , Theodore Tso , "Darrick J. Wong" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111008075343.20506.23155.stgit@elm3c44.beaverton.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org ext4_mkdir calls ext4_handle_dirty_metadata with dir_block and the inode "dir". Unfortunately, dir_block belongs to the newly created directory (which is "inode"), not the parent directory (which is "dir"). Fix the incorrect association. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 6d3fab4..50c7294 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ retry: ext4_set_de_type(dir->i_sb, de, S_IFDIR); inode->i_nlink = 2; BUFFER_TRACE(dir_block, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata"); - err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, dir_block); + err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, dir_block); if (err) goto out_clear_inode; err = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);