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Commit 5dccdc5a authored by zhangyi (F)'s avatar zhangyi (F) Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: do not iput inode under running transaction in ext4_rename()

In ext4_rename(), when RENAME_WHITEOUT failed to add new entry into
directory, it ends up dropping new created whiteout inode under the
running transaction. After commit <9b88f9fb

> ("ext4: Do not iput inode
under running transaction"), we follow the assumptions that evict() does
not get called from a transaction context but in ext4_rename() it breaks
this suggestion. Although it's not a real problem, better to obey it, so
this patch add inode to orphan list and stop transaction before final
iput().

Signed-off-by: default avatarzhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303131703.330415-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
parent b7ff91fd
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