From 28baacf332381e15cb68dfad79ab12917ac8ddde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:20:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 139484 b: refs/heads/master c:
 e6f009b0b45220c004672d41a58865e94946104d h: refs/heads/master v: v3

---
 [refs]                |  2 +-
 trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 19ee0deba82c..20ffb616f6fb 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a4912123b688e057084e6557cef8924f7ae5bbde
+refs/heads/master: e6f009b0b45220c004672d41a58865e94946104d
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
index a5ba1a858094..6e1ad68cdc7a 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1077,8 +1077,16 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, stru
 			return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
 		}
 		inode = ext4_iget(dir->i_sb, ino);
-		if (IS_ERR(inode))
-			return ERR_CAST(inode);
+		if (unlikely(IS_ERR(inode))) {
+			if (PTR_ERR(inode) == -ESTALE) {
+				ext4_error(dir->i_sb, __func__,
+						"deleted inode referenced: %u",
+						ino);
+				return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+			} else {
+				return ERR_CAST(inode);
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
 }