>From 7ad8e4e6ae2a7c95445ee1715b1714106fb95037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 11:05:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix fs corruption when make_indexed_dir() fails When make_indexed_dir() fails (e.g. because of ENOSPC) after it has allocated block for index tree root, we did not properly mark all changed buffers dirty. This lead to only some of these buffers being written out and thus effectively corrupting the directory. Fix the issue by marking all changed data dirty even in the error failure case. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 67fd0b0..cadf04b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1414,9 +1414,19 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry, frame->bh = bh; bh = bh2; de = do_split(handle,dir, &bh, frame, &hinfo, &retval); - dx_release (frames); - if (!(de)) + if (!de) { + /* + * Even if the block split failed, we have to properly write + * out all the changes we did so far. Otherwise we can end up + * with corrupted filesystem. + */ + ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir); + ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, frame->bh); + ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, bh); + dx_release(frames); return retval; + } + dx_release(frames); retval = add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, de, bh); brelse(bh); -- 1.7.12.rc0.22.gcdd159b