Chao Yu
9819403055
f2fs: fix to avoid accessing uninitialized field of inode page in is_alive()
If inode is newly created, inode page may not synchronize with inode cache, so fields like .i_inline or .i_extra_isize could be wrong, in below call path, we may access such wrong fields, result in failing to migrate valid target block. Thread A Thread B - f2fs_create - f2fs_add_link - f2fs_add_dentry - f2fs_init_inode_metadata - f2fs_add_inline_entry - f2fs_new_inode_page - f2fs_put_page : inode page wasn't updated with inode cache - gc_data_segment - is_alive - f2fs_get_node_page - datablock_addr - offset_in_addr : access uninitialized fields Fixes: 7a2af766af15 ("f2fs: enhance on-disk inode structure scalability") Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
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