linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix checks for orphan inodes

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Message-ID: <175892300647.128029.6799624233457058163.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:47:37 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Fix checks for orphan inodes


On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:30:39 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> When orphan file feature is enabled, inode can be tracked as orphan
> either in the standard orphan list or in the orphan file. The first can
> be tested by checking ei->i_orphan list head, the second is recorded by
> EXT4_STATE_ORPHAN_FILE inode state flag. There are several places where
> we want to check whether inode is tracked as orphan and only some of
> them properly check for both possibilities. Luckily the consequences are
> mostly minor, the worst that can happen is that we track an inode as
> orphan although we don't need to and e2fsck then complains (resulting in
> occasional ext4/307 xfstest failures). Fix the problem by introducing a
> helper for checking whether an inode is tracked as orphan and use it in
> appropriate places.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4: Fix checks for orphan inodes
      commit: acf943e9768ec9d9be80982ca0ebc4bfd6b7631e

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>