[PATCH] ubifs: Fix O_TMPFILE corner case in ubifs_link()

Amir Goldstein amir73il at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 05:06:43 PDT 2017


On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at> wrote:
> 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. :(
>

Richard,

Were you able to make any progress? still working on this?
If this is too complicated to get in for this cycle, better send a patch
to disable O_TMPFILE support for ubifs and fix the problem properly on
followup merge cycle.
Because right now ubifs O_TMPFILE support is broken and breaks overlayfs mount.

Amir.



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