linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Don't set s_buddy_cache->i_ino to EXT4_BAD

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Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:20:22 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Yu Jian <yujian@...mcloud.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Don't set s_buddy_cache->i_ino to EXT4_BAD_INO

From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>

In 85fe4025, Christoph removed get_next_ino() from new_inode() and
do s_buddy_cache->i_ino = get_next_ino();
And then 48e6061b gives EXT4_BAD_INO to this inode. But actually
s_buddy_cache is used directly and we never get it from an inode number.
So it should be safe for us to not set i_ino at all and I guess that
is the case Christoph described in his commit log of 85fe4025
"For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning any inode number given
that they aren't user visible".

Cc: Yu Jian <yujian@...mcloud.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    5 -----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 17a5a57..982f783 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2342,11 +2342,6 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_backend(struct super_block *sb)
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't get new inode");
 		goto err_freesgi;
 	}
-	/* To avoid potentially colliding with an valid on-disk inode number,
-	 * use EXT4_BAD_INO for the buddy cache inode number.  This inode is
-	 * not in the inode hash, so it should never be found by iget(), but
-	 * this will avoid confusion if it ever shows up during debugging. */
-	sbi->s_buddy_cache->i_ino = EXT4_BAD_INO;
 	EXT4_I(sbi->s_buddy_cache)->i_disksize = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
 		desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, i, NULL);
-- 
1.7.0.4

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