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    ext4: Fix ext4_should_writeback_data() for no-journal mode · 441c8508
    Curt Wohlgemuth authored
    ext4_should_writeback_data() had an incorrect sequence of
    tests to determine if it should return 0 or 1: in
    particular, even in no-journal mode, 0 was being returned
    for a non-regular-file inode.
    
    This meant that, in non-journal mode, we would use
    ext4_journalled_aops for directories, symlinks, and other
    non-regular files.  However, calling journalled aop
    callbacks when there is no valid handle, can cause problems.
    
    This would cause a kernel crash with Jan Kara's commit
    2d859db3
    
     ("ext4: fix data corruption in inodes with
    journalled data"), because we now dereference 'handle' in
    ext4_journalled_write_end().
    
    I also added BUG_ONs to check for a valid handle in the
    obviously journal-only aops callbacks.
    
    I tested this running xfstests with a scratch device in
    these modes:
    
       - no-journal
       - data=ordered
       - data=writeback
       - data=journal
    
    All work fine; the data=journal run has many failures and a
    crash in xfstests 074, but this is no different from a
    vanilla kernel.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCurt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    441c8508