[PATCH] ubifs: Fix O_TMPFILE corner case in ubifs_link()
Richard Weinberger
richard at nod.at
Thu Mar 30 05:27:21 PDT 2017
Am 30.03.2017 um 13:57 schrieb Adrian Hunter:
>> Reading deeper into the proved that I was wrong.
>> AFAIKT UBIFS' journal has currently no way to revive a deleted inode.
>> So, we have to think about a new solution.
>
> Deleting the orphan looks right. Just need to understand whether the
> recovery would do the right thing - actually it looks like O_TMPFILE might
> be OK and in other case we might be failing to remove nodes with sequence
> numbers greater than the deletion inode.
Sadly it does not the right thing.
I'm currently investigating why and how to deal with it.
I also managed to trigger that case. :(
Thanks,
//richard
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