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);