[PATCH 4.9 199/206] xfs: ignore leaf attr ichdr.count in verifier during log replay

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jan 10 2017 - 08:55:50 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 2e1d23370e75d7d89350d41b4ab58c7f6a0e26b2 upstream.

When we create a new attribute, we first create a shortform
attribute, and try to fit the new attribute into it.
If that fails, we copy the (empty) attribute into a leaf attribute,
and do the copy again. Thus there can be a transient state where
we have an empty leaf attribute.

If we encounter this during log replay, the verifier will fail.
So add a test to ignore this part of the leaf attr verification
during log replay.

Thanks as usual to dchinner for spotting the problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_verify(
{
struct xfs_mount *mp = bp->b_target->bt_mount;
struct xfs_attr_leafblock *leaf = bp->b_addr;
+ struct xfs_perag *pag = bp->b_pag;
struct xfs_attr3_icleaf_hdr ichdr;

xfs_attr3_leaf_hdr_from_disk(mp->m_attr_geo, &ichdr, leaf);
@@ -273,7 +274,12 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_verify(
if (ichdr.magic != XFS_ATTR_LEAF_MAGIC)
return false;
}
- if (ichdr.count == 0)
+ /*
+ * In recovery there is a transient state where count == 0 is valid
+ * because we may have transitioned an empty shortform attr to a leaf
+ * if the attr didn't fit in shortform.
+ */
+ if (pag && pag->pagf_init && ichdr.count == 0)
return false;

/* XXX: need to range check rest of attr header values */