Bryan Donlan 4d6c13f87d ext2: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode ... ext2_iget() returns -ESTALE if invoked on a deleted inode, in order to report errors to NFS properly. However, in ext[234]_lookup(), this -ESTALE can be propagated to userspace if the filesystem is corrupted such that a directory entry references a deleted inode. This leads to a misleading error message - "Stale NFS file handle" - and confusion on the part of the admin. The bug can be easily reproduced by creating a new filesystem, making a link to an unused inode using debugfs, then mounting and attempting to ls -l said link. This patch thus changes ext2_lookup to return -EIO if it receives -ESTALE from ext2_iget(), as ext2 does for other filesystem metadata corruption; and also invokes the appropriate ext*_error functions when this case is detected. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
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acl.c
acl.h
balloc.c
dir.c
ext2.h
file.c
ialloc.c
inode.c
ioctl.c
Kconfig
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namei.c	ext2: return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode	2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
super.c
symlink.c
xattr_security.c
xattr_trusted.c
xattr_user.c
xattr.c
xattr.h
xip.c
xip.h