From: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:03:36 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Unionfs: handle partial copyup errors gracefully
X-Git-Tag: unionfs-2.5.1~4
X-Git-Url: https://git.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70da80c0c4e8d4f55d485c70cb35b5924387a5ed;p=unionfs-2.6.25.y.git

Unionfs: handle partial copyup errors gracefully

Don't leave any dentries behind if copying up the inode (or setting its
permission, i.e., using TOMOYO) failed.

CC: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
---

diff --git a/fs/unionfs/copyup.c b/fs/unionfs/copyup.c
index bbd49c83b0e..0254b60d641 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/copyup.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/copyup.c
@@ -519,8 +519,17 @@ out_free:
 		dput(old_lower_dentry);
 	kfree(symbuf);
 
-	if (err)
+	if (err) {
+		/*
+		 * if directory creation succeeded, but inode copyup failed,
+		 * then purge new dentries.
+		 */
+		if (dbstart(dentry) < old_bstart &&
+		    ibstart(dentry->d_inode) > dbstart(dentry))
+			__clear(dentry, NULL, old_bstart, old_bend,
+				unionfs_lower_dentry(dentry), dbstart(dentry));
 		goto out;
+	}
 	if (!S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
 		unionfs_postcopyup_release(dentry);
 		if (!unionfs_lower_inode(dentry->d_inode)) {