Hi Richard,

Could you CC this patch to stable? It fixes a serious problem that I am
seeing on real devices (i.e. Linux not being able to mount its root
filesystem after a power cut). Thanks.

John Ogness

On 2020-01-19, Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> wrote:
> Orphans are allowed to point to deleted inodes.
> So -ENOENT is not a fatal error.
>
> Reported-by: Кочетков Максим <fido_...@inbox.ru>
> Reported-and-tested-by: "Christian Berger" <christian.ber...@de.bosch.com>
> Fixes: ee1438ce5dc4 ("ubifs: Check link count of inodes when killing 
> orphans.")
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at>
> ---
>  fs/ubifs/orphan.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
> index 54d6db61106f..2645917360b9 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/orphan.c
> @@ -688,14 +688,14 @@ static int do_kill_orphans(struct ubifs_info *c, struct 
> ubifs_scan_leb *sleb,
>  
>                       ino_key_init(c, &key1, inum);
>                       err = ubifs_tnc_lookup(c, &key1, ino);
> -                     if (err)
> +                     if (err && err != -ENOENT)
>                               goto out_free;
>  
>                       /*
>                        * Check whether an inode can really get deleted.
>                        * linkat() with O_TMPFILE allows rebirth of an inode.
>                        */
> -                     if (ino->nlink == 0) {
> +                     if (err == 0 && ino->nlink == 0) {
>                               dbg_rcvry("deleting orphaned inode %lu",
>                                         (unsigned long)inum);

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