Re: [PATCH 08/32] ext4: fix ref counting for ea_inode

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Wed Jun 21 2017 - 21:41:09 EST


On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 02:21:18PM -0700, Tahsin Erdogan wrote:
> The ref count on ea_inode is incremented by
> ext4_xattr_inode_orphan_add() which is supposed to be decremented by
> ext4_xattr_inode_array_free(). The decrement is conditioned on whether
> the ea_inode is currently on the orphan list. However, the orphan list
> addition only happens when journaling is enabled. In non-journaled case,r
> we fail to release the ref count causing an error message like below.
>
> "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of sdb. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.
> Have a nice day..."
>
> Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

- Ted