2.6.29-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Bryan Donlan (cherry picked from commit e6f009b0b45220c004672d41a58865e94946104d) ext4_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext4_lookup(), this -ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to a misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the part of the admin. The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls -l said link. This patch thus changes ext4_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE from ext4_iget(), as ext4 does for other filesystem metadata corruption; and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is detected. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1052,8 +1052,16 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_lookup(struct return ERR_PTR(-EIO); } inode = ext4_iget(dir->i_sb, ino); - if (IS_ERR(inode)) - return ERR_CAST(inode); + if (unlikely(IS_ERR(inode))) { + if (PTR_ERR(inode) == -ESTALE) { + ext4_error(dir->i_sb, __func__, + "deleted inode referenced: %u", + ino); + return ERR_PTR(-EIO); + } else { + return ERR_CAST(inode); + } + } } return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/