Re: [Patch] ext3_new_inode() failure case fix

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> While I am studying ext3_new_inode() failure code paths, I found the
> inode->i_nlink is not cleared to 0 in the first failure path. But it is
> cleared to 0 in the second failure path(fail to allocate disk quota). I
> think it should be cleared in both cases, because later when
> generic_drop_inode() is called by iput(), i_nlink is checked to decide
> whether to call generic_delete_inode(). Currently it is calling
> generic_forget_inode().
> 
> Also the reference to the inode bitmap buffer head should be dropped on
> the failure path too.

That reference already is dropped:

> --- linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm5/fs/ext3/ialloc.c~ext3_new_inode_failure_case_fix	2004-09-22 00:18:18.196012520 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm5-ming/fs/ext3/ialloc.c	2004-09-22 00:19:20.063607216 -0700
> @@ -622,7 +622,9 @@ got:
>  fail:
>  	ext3_std_error(sb, err);
>  out:
> +	inode->i_nlink = 0;
>  	iput(inode);
> +	brelse(bitmap_bh);
>  	ret = ERR_PTR(err);
>  really_out:
>  	brelse(bitmap_bh);

        ^ here

So I'll drop that part of the patch.