I have a hand-crafted bad filesystem image which has corruption: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls mnt/dir file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls mnt/dir/file4 ls: cannot access mnt/dir/file4: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l mnt/dir ls: cannot access mnt/dir/file4: No such file or directory total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-09-04 13:36 file1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-09-04 13:36 file2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-09-04 13:36 file3 d????????? ? ? ? ? ? file4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-09-04 13:36 file5
e2fsck also knows it's corrupted: Pass 2: Checking directory structure Entry 'file4' in /dir (2049) has deleted/unused inode 13. Clear? no Entry 'file4' in /dir (2049) has an incorrect filetype (was 2, should be 1). Fix? no Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Unconnected directory inode 2053 (/dir/???) BUT there are no kernel messages logged anywhere because ext4_read_inode silently makes a bad_inode in this case, so that stale NFS filehandles aren't noisy. However, when we encounter such a problem after a by-name lookup, I think a warning is appropriate, as it indicates filesystem corruption. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/ext4/namei.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.24-rc3.orig/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ linux-2.6.24-rc3/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1050,6 +1050,9 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_lookup(struct return ERR_PTR(-EACCES); if (is_bad_inode(inode)) { + ext4_warning(inode->i_sb, __FUNCTION__, + "bad inode %lu in dir #%lu", + inode->i_ino, dir->i_ino); iput(inode); return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/