Hi,

This patch fixes a problem whereby GFS2 does not properly clean
up partially created files when the file system becomes too full.

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat File Systems

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
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GFS2: fsck.gfs2 finds unlinked inodes on full file systems

In some cases, when a GFS2 file system was nearly full, GFS2
was able to allocate a block for a new file's dinode but not
a second block for linking that new dinode to a directory.
In these cases, GFS2 was not properly deallocating the partially-
created file. Thus, subsequent runs of fsck.gfs2 found unlinked
files. This patch adds a an extra cleanup path to the dinode
create function to properly deallocate the partially-created file.

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
index cb81898..bc81c9d 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -708,19 +708,19 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,

error = gfs2_inode_refresh(GFS2_I(inode));
if (error)
- goto fail_gunlock2;
+ goto fail_dealloc;

error = gfs2_acl_create(dip, inode);
if (error)
- goto fail_gunlock2;
+ goto fail_dealloc;

error = gfs2_security_init(dip, GFS2_I(inode), name);
if (error)
- goto fail_gunlock2;
+ goto fail_dealloc;

error = link_dinode(dip, name, GFS2_I(inode));
if (error)
- goto fail_gunlock2;
+ goto fail_dealloc;

if (bh)
brelse(bh);
@@ -737,6 +737,8 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
return 0;

+fail_dealloc:
+ gfs2_dinode_dealloc(GFS2_I(inode));
fail_gunlock2:
gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(ghs + 1);
fail_gunlock: