Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: avoid stale fi->gdirty_list pointer

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Mon Oct 16 2017 - 19:06:34 EST


On 10/16, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2017/10/13 10:14, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > When doing fault injection test, f2fs_evict_inode() didn't remove gdirty_list
> > which incurs a kernel panic due to wrong pointer access.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Minor thing, how about reverting judgment condition for readability?
>
> if (is_set_ckpt_flags(sbi, CP_ERROR_FLAG))
> f2fs_inode_synced()

We don't need to expect such the errored corner case first. ;)

> else
> f2fs_bug_on()
>
> Thanks,
>
> > ---
> > fs/f2fs/inode.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > index f6db9d533ca4..1ae5396c97d6 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > @@ -535,6 +535,8 @@ void f2fs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
> >
> > if (!is_set_ckpt_flags(sbi, CP_ERROR_FLAG))
> > f2fs_bug_on(sbi, is_inode_flag_set(inode, FI_DIRTY_INODE));
> > + else
> > + f2fs_inode_synced(inode);
> >
> > /* ino == 0, if f2fs_new_inode() was failed t*/
> > if (inode->i_ino)
> >