4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at>
commit 32fe905c17f001c0eee13c59afddd0bf2eed509c upstream.
It is perfectly fine to link a tmpfile back using linkat().
Since tmpfiles are created with a link count of 0 they appear
on the orphan list, upon re-linking the inode has to be removed
from the orphan list again.
Ralph faced a filesystem corruption in combination with overlayfs
due to this bug.
Cc: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhau...@gmail.com>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhau...@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhau...@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com>
Fixes: 474b93704f321 ("ubifs: Implement O_TMPFILE")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/ubifs/dir.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
@@ -622,6 +622,11 @@ static int ubifs_link(struct dentry *old
return err;
lock_2_inodes(dir, inode);
+
+ /* Handle O_TMPFILE corner case, it is allowed to link a O_TMPFILE. */
+ if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
+ ubifs_delete_orphan(c, inode->i_ino);
+
inc_nlink(inode);
ihold(inode);
inode->i_ctime = ubifs_current_time(inode);
@@ -641,6 +646,8 @@ out_cancel:
dir->i_size -= sz_change;
dir_ui->ui_size = dir->i_size;
drop_nlink(inode);
+ if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
+ ubifs_add_orphan(c, inode->i_ino);
unlock_2_inodes(dir, inode);
ubifs_release_budget(c, &req);
iput(inode);
