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Commit 318cdc82 authored by Zhang Yi's avatar Zhang Yi Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: check and assert if marking an no_delete evicting inode dirty



In ext4_evict_inode(), if we evicting an inode in the 'no_delete' path,
it cannot be raced by another mark_inode_dirty(). If it happens,
someone else may accidentally dirty it without holding inode refcount
and probably cause use-after-free issues in the writeback procedure.
It's indiscoverable and hard to debug, so add an WARN_ON_ONCE() to
check and detect this issue in advance.

Suggested-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220629112647.4141034-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
parent bc12ac98
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