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jffs2: reduce the breakage on recovery from halfway failed rename()

d_instantiate(new_dentry, old_inode) is absolutely wrong thing to
do - it will oops if new_dentry used to be positive, for starters.
What we need is d_invalidate() the target and be done with that.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.18+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro 9 năm trước cách đây
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1 tập tin đã thay đổi với 8 bổ sung3 xóa
  1. 8 3
      fs/jffs2/dir.c

+ 8 - 3
fs/jffs2/dir.c

@@ -843,9 +843,14 @@ static int jffs2_rename (struct inode *old_dir_i, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 
 		pr_notice("%s(): Link succeeded, unlink failed (err %d). You now have a hard link\n",
 			  __func__, ret);
-		/* Might as well let the VFS know */
-		d_instantiate(new_dentry, d_inode(old_dentry));
-		ihold(d_inode(old_dentry));
+		/*
+		 * We can't keep the target in dcache after that.
+		 * For one thing, we can't afford dentry aliases for directories.
+		 * For another, if there was a victim, we _can't_ set new inode
+		 * for that sucker and we have to trigger mount eviction - the
+		 * caller won't do it on its own since we are returning an error.
+		 */
+		d_invalidate(new_dentry);
 		new_dir_i->i_mtime = new_dir_i->i_ctime = ITIME(now);
 		return ret;
 	}