linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: try to flush inline data before calling BUG in writepages

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 19:51:04 +0200
From:   Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:     Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+bd13648a53ed6933ca49@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: try to flush inline data before calling BUG in
 writepages

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 10:40:25AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> Hi Lukas,
> On 7/27/22 10:25, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > I don't think this is the right fix. We're in ext4_writepages, so at
> > this point I don't think an inode should have any actual inline data in
> > it. If it does it's a bug and the question is how did this get here?
> > 
> > The inode is likely corrupted and it should have been noticed earliler
> > and it should never get here.
> 
> Yes, that was just an attempt fix something that I'm not quite familiar
> with.
> 
> Jan sent already a patch for that fixes it:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220727155753.13969-1-jack@suse.cz/
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Tadeusz
> 

Yeah, I just noticed sorry about that. I was missing the email context
for some reason.

Thanks!
-Lukas