linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels that offer x86 compatability

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Date:	Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:41:04 -0500
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	Jörn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make last_inode counter in new_inode 32-bit on kernels
	that offer x86 compatability

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 18:56 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Things are getting more interesting.  simple_fill_super() looked like
> a bug waiting to happen.  It is fairly hard to trigger, but still.
> This should fix it, although in a fairly crude manner.
> 
> The other callers were save - it is hard to have the root inode
> collide with anything existing.
> 
> Jörn
> 

Jörn,
  How about this patch instead here? I don't think anything depends on
i_ino being any certain value for these files, and this seems less
"magic-numbery". This should also mostly prevent us from assigning out
i_ino=0.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index bd08e0e..506268e 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block
 	inode = new_inode(s);
 	if (!inode)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	/* ino must not collide with any ino assigned in the loop below */
+	inode->i_ino = 1;
 	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | 0755;
 	inode->i_uid = inode->i_gid = 0;
 	inode->i_blocks = 0;
@@ -385,7 +387,7 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block
 		iput(inode);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-	for (i = 0; !files->name || files->name[0]; i++, files++) {
+	for (i = 2; !files->name || files->name[0]; i++, files++) {
 		if (!files->name)
 			continue;
 		dentry = d_alloc_name(root, files->name);


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