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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 70d1b3e64284..e41620b56e53 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2342,7 +2342,11 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_backend(struct super_block *sb) ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "can't get new inode"); goto err_freesgi; } - sbi->s_buddy_cache->i_ino = get_next_ino(); + /* To avoid potentially colliding with an valid on-disk inode number, + * use EXT4_BAD_INO for the buddy cache inode number. This inode is + * not in the inode hash, so it should never be found by iget(), but + * this will avoid confusion if it ever shows up during debugging. */ + sbi->s_buddy_cache->i_ino = EXT4_BAD_INO; EXT4_I(sbi->s_buddy_cache)->i_disksize = 0; for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) { desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, i, NULL); |