simple_fill_super() looked like a bug waiting to happen. It is fairly hard to
trigger, but still. This should fix it, although in a fairly crude manner.
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index bd08e0e..477c012 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -373,6 +373,10 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block
inode = new_inode(s);
if (!inode)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /* ino must not collide with any ino assigned in the loop below.
+ * This value is arbitrary but should be "big enough" to avoid
+ * collisions. */
+ inode->i_ino = 0x8000000;
inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | 0755;
inode->i_uid = inode->i_gid = 0;
inode->i_blocks = 0;
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