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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2026-02-16 17:48:43 +0100
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2026-03-27 23:30:37 -0400
commitbd060afa7cc3e0ad30afa9ecc544a78638498555 (patch)
tree9291e62e5b67b16c99b5f6f8dcc6303ab7cefcee
parentb1d682f1990c19fb1d5b97d13266210457092bcd (diff)
ext4: make recently_deleted() properly work with lazy itable initialization
recently_deleted() checks whether inode has been used in the near past. However this can give false positive result when inode table is not initialized yet and we are in fact comparing to random garbage (or stale itable block of a filesystem before mkfs). Ultimately this results in uninitialized inodes being skipped during inode allocation and possibly they are never initialized and thus e2fsck complains. Verify if the inode has been initialized before checking for dtime. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216164848.3074-3-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/ialloc.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index b20a1bf866ab..b1bc1950c9f0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -686,6 +686,12 @@ static int recently_deleted(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group, int ino)
if (unlikely(!gdp))
return 0;
+ /* Inode was never used in this filesystem? */
+ if (ext4_has_group_desc_csum(sb) &&
+ (gdp->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT) ||
+ ino >= EXT4_INODES_PER_GROUP(sb) - ext4_itable_unused_count(sb, gdp)))
+ return 0;
+
bh = sb_find_get_block(sb, ext4_inode_table(sb, gdp) +
(ino / inodes_per_block));
if (!bh || !buffer_uptodate(bh))