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    ext4: Do not iput inode under running transaction · 9b88f9fb
    Jan Kara authored
    When ext4_mkdir(), ext4_symlink(), ext4_create(), or ext4_mknod() fail
    to add entry into directory, it ends up dropping freshly created inode
    under the running transaction and thus inode truncation happens under
    that transaction. That breaks assumptions that evict() does not get
    called from a transaction context and at least in ext4_symlink() case it
    can result in inode eviction deadlocking in inode_wait_for_writeback()
    when flush worker finds symlink inode, starts to write it back and
    blocks on starting a transaction. So change the code in ext4_mkdir() and
    ext4_add_nondir() to drop inode reference only after the transaction is
    stopped. We also have to add inode to the orphan list in that case as
    otherwise the inode would get leaked in case we crash before inode
    deletion is committed.
    
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105164437.32602-5-jack@suse.czSigned-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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