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Commit b25e6a5f authored by Zhihao Cheng's avatar Zhihao Cheng Committed by Richard Weinberger
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ubifs: Fix space leak when powercut happens in linking tmpfile

There is a potential space leak problem when powercut happens in linking
tmpfile, in which case, inode node (with nlink=0) and its' data nodes can
be found from tnc (on flash), but there are no dentries related to the
inode, so the file is invisible but takes free space. Detailed process is
shown as:
 ubifs_tmpfile
  ubifs_jnl_update // Add bud A into log area
   ubifs_add_orphan // Add inode into orphan list

     P1             P2
 ubifs_link
  ubifs_delete_orphan // Delete inode from orphan list, then inode won't
		      // be written into orphan area, there is no chance
		      // to delete inode by replaying orphan.
                commit // bud A won't be replayed in next mounting
   >> powercut <<
  ubifs_jnl_update // Link inode to dentry

The root cause is that orphan entry deletion and journal writing(for link)
are interrupted by commit, which makes the two operations are not atomic.
Fix it by doing ubifs_delete_orphan under the protection of c->commit_sem
within ubifs_jnl_update. This is also a preparation to support all creating
new files by orphan inode.

v1 is https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20200701093227.674945-1-chengzhihao1@huawei.com/

Fixes: 32fe905c ("ubifs: Fix O_TMPFILE corner case in ubifs_link()")
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208405


Signed-off-by: default avatarZhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
parent 9f5ecacf
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