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

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:40:25 -0700
From:   Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>
To:     Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
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

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