2022-08-03 11:00:37

by Lukas Czerner

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Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] ext4: don't increase iversion counter for ea_inodes

ea_inodes are using i_version for storing part of the reference count so
we really need to leave it alone.

The problem can be reproduced by xfstest ext4/026 when iversion is
enabled. Fix it by not calling inode_inc_iversion() for EXT4_EA_INODE_FL
inodes in ext4_mark_iloc_dirty().

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
---
v2: no changes

fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 84c0eb55071d..b76554124224 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -5717,7 +5717,12 @@ int ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(handle_t *handle,
}
ext4_fc_track_inode(handle, inode);

- if (IS_I_VERSION(inode))
+ /*
+ * ea_inodes are using i_version for storing reference count, don't
+ * mess with it
+ */
+ if (IS_I_VERSION(inode) &&
+ !(EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags & EXT4_EA_INODE_FL))
inode_inc_iversion(inode);

/* the do_update_inode consumes one bh->b_count */
--
2.37.1