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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c
index 414c1b9eb896..3104e0eec816 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
@@ -1338,7 +1338,21 @@ static int read_symlink(struct send_ctx *sctx,
ret = btrfs_search_slot(NULL, root, &key, path, 0, 0);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
- BUG_ON(ret);
+ if (ret) {
+ /*
+ * An empty symlink inode. Can happen in rare error paths when
+ * creating a symlink (transaction committed before the inode
+ * eviction handler removed the symlink inode items and a crash
+ * happened in between or the subvol was snapshoted in between).
+ * Print an informative message to dmesg/syslog so that the user
+ * can delete the symlink.
+ */
+ btrfs_err(root->fs_info,
+ "Found empty symlink inode %llu at root %llu",
+ ino, root->root_key.objectid);
+ ret = -EIO;
+ goto out;
+ }
ei = btrfs_item_ptr(path->nodes[0], path->slots[0],
struct btrfs_file_extent_item);