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    [PATCH] ext3: handle attempted delete of bitmap blocks. · c579b4e2
    Stephen C. Tweedie authored
    This patch improves ext3's ability to deal with corruption on-disk.  If we
    ever get a corrupt inode or indirect block, then an attempt to delete it
    can end up trying to remove any block on the fs, including bitmap blocks.
    This can cause ext3 to assert-fail as we end up trying to do an ext3_forget
    on a buffer with b_committed_data set.
    
    The fix is to downgrade this to an IO error and journal abort, so that we
    take the filesystem readonly but don't bring down the whole kernel.
    
    Make J_EXPECT_JH() return a value so it can be easily tested and yet still
    retained as an assert failure if we build ext3 with full internal debugging
    enabled.  Make journal_forget() return an error code so that in this case
    the error can be passed up to the caller.
    
    This is easily reproduced with a sample ext3 fs image containing an inode
    whose direct and indirect blocks refer to a block bitmap block.  Allocating
    new blocks and then deleting that inode will BUG() with:
    
    Assertion failure in journal_forget() at fs/jbd/transaction.c:1228:
    "!jh->b_committed_data"
    
    With the fix, ext3 recovers gracefully.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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