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Commit 13ec7297 authored by Chao Yu's avatar Chao Yu Committed by Jaegeuk Kim
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f2fs: fix to release inode correctly



In following call stack, if unfortunately we lose all chances to truncate
inode page in remove_inode_page, eventually we will add the nid allocated
previously into free nid cache, this nid is with NID_NEW status and with
NEW_ADDR in its blkaddr pointer:

 - f2fs_create
  - f2fs_add_link
   - __f2fs_add_link
    - init_inode_metadata
     - new_inode_page
      - new_node_page
       - set_node_addr(, NEW_ADDR)
     - f2fs_init_acl   failed
     - remove_inode_page  failed
  - handle_failed_inode
   - remove_inode_page  failed
   - iput
    - f2fs_evict_inode
     - remove_inode_page  failed
     - alloc_nid_failed   cache a nid with valid blkaddr: NEW_ADDR

This may not only cause resource leak of previous inode, but also may cause
incorrect use of the previous blkaddr which is located in NO.nid node entry
when this nid is reused by others.

This patch tries to add this inode to orphan list if we fail to truncate
inode, so that we can obtain a second chance to release it in orphan
recovery flow.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
parent b0154891
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