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| author | Yu Jian <yujian@whamcloud.com> | 2011-08-01 17:41:39 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2011-08-01 17:41:39 -0400 |
| commit | 48e6061bf4bb25eec151b91f22fd90a5b9a4920a (patch) | |
| tree | b0515505a3eee15adcc38325d309553e57e40975 | |
| parent | 9d8b9ec44234b2f6e0225300632d250210c04f11 (diff) | |
ext4: use EXT4_BAD_INO for buddy cache to avoid colliding with valid inode #
Signed-off-by: Yu Jian <yujian@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 70d1b3e6428..e41620b56e5 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2342,7 +2342,11 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_backend(struct super_block *sb) ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't get new inode"); goto err_freesgi; } - sbi->s_buddy_cache->i_ino = get_next_ino(); + /* To avoid potentially colliding with an valid on-disk inode number, + * use EXT4_BAD_INO for the buddy cache inode number. This inode is + * not in the inode hash, so it should never be found by iget(), but + * this will avoid confusion if it ever shows up during debugging. */ + sbi->s_buddy_cache->i_ino = EXT4_BAD_INO; EXT4_I(sbi->s_buddy_cache)->i_disksize = 0; for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) { desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, i, NULL); |