summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>2021-07-12 12:58:48 -0700
committerDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>2021-07-15 09:58:42 -0700
commit5838d0356bb3c320867c393f12b169c01a870bda (patch)
tree479434143b7ae13788612b55a30a339b9998cec9 /README
parentda062d16a897c0759ae907e786bc0bea950c0c9d (diff)
downloadlinux-5838d0356bb3c320867c393f12b169c01a870bda.tar.bz2
xfs: reset child dir '..' entry when unlinking child
While running xfs/168, I noticed a second source of post-shrink corruption errors causing shutdowns. Let's say that directory B has a low inode number and is a child of directory A, which has a high number. If B is empty but open, and unlinked from A, B's dotdot link continues to point to A. If A is then unlinked and the filesystem shrunk so that A is no longer a valid inode, a subsequent AIL push of B will trip the inode verifiers because the dotdot entry points outside of the filesystem. To avoid this problem, reset B's dotdot entry to the root directory when unlinking directories, since the root directory cannot be removed. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions