ext4: don't use the orphan list when migrating an inode
We probably want to remove the indirect block to extents migration feature after a deprecation window, but until then, let's fix a potential data loss problem caused by the fact that we put the tmp_inode on the orphan list. In the unlikely case where we crash and do a journal recovery, the data blocks belonging to the inode being migrated are also represented in the tmp_inode on the orphan list --- and so its data blocks will get marked unallocated, and available for reuse. Instead, stop putting the tmp_inode on the oprhan list. So in the case where we crash while migrating the inode, we'll leak an inode, which is not a disaster. It will be easily fixed the next time we run fsck, and it's better than potentially having blocks getting claimed by two different files, and losing data as a result. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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