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    ext4: prevent getting empty inode buffer · de01f484
    Zhang Yi authored
    In ext4_get_inode_loc(), we may skip IO and get an zero && uptodate
    inode buffer when the inode monopolize an inode block for performance
    reason. For most cases, ext4_mark_iloc_dirty() will fill the inode
    buffer to make it fine, but we could miss this call if something bad
    happened. Finally, __ext4_get_inode_loc_noinmem() may probably get an
    empty inode buffer and trigger ext4 error.
    
    For example, if we remove a nonexistent xattr on inode A,
    ext4_xattr_set_handle() will return ENODATA before invoking
    ext4_mark_iloc_dirty(), it will left an uptodate but zero buffer. We
    will get checksum error message in ext4_iget() when getting inode again.
    
      EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_lookup:1784: inode #131074: comm cat: iget: checksum invalid
    
    Even worse, if we allocate another inode B at the same inode block, it
    will corrupt the inode A on disk when write back inode B.
    
    So this patch initialize the inode buffer by filling the in-mem inode
    contents if we skip read I/O, ensure that the buffer is really uptodate.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210901020955.1657340-4-yi.zhang@huawei.comSigned-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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