ext4: ext4_mkdir should dirty dir_block with newly created directory inode
authorDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:00:51 +0000 (12:00 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:36:34 +0000 (09:36 -0800)
commit f9287c1f2d329f4d78a3bbc9cf0db0ebae6f146a upstream.

ext4_mkdir calls ext4_handle_dirty_metadata with dir_block and the inode "dir".
Unfortunately, dir_block belongs to the newly created directory (which is
"inode"), not the parent directory (which is "dir").  Fix the incorrect
association.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/ext4/namei.c

index 92875a41f51f1f0a05cadb37588bbeeed5f5e635..b1fba2c8c1812f57fc4d12dacbcbb99ef9d013cc 100644 (file)
@@ -1866,7 +1866,7 @@ retry:
        ext4_set_de_type(dir->i_sb, de, S_IFDIR);
        inode->i_nlink = 2;
        BUFFER_TRACE(dir_block, "call ext4_handle_dirty_metadata");
-       err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, dir_block);
+       err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, inode, dir_block);
        if (err)
                goto out_clear_inode;
        err = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);