Re: [PATCH 4.4 181/268] Btrfs: fix copy_items() return value when logging an inode

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 12:02 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.ÂÂIf anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 8434ec46c6e3232cebc25a910363b29f5c617820 ]

Should stable branches also get a backport of commit
4ee3fad34a9cc2cf33303dfbd0cf554248651c86?  It looks like 4.4 and 4.9
would need a minor change (inode->root to BTRFS_I(inode)->root) but I
don't know whether that's really sufficient.

Ben.

> When logging an inode, at tree-log.c:copy_items(), if we call
> btrfs_next_leaf() at the loop which checks for the need to log holes, we
> need to make sure copy_items() returns the value 1 to its caller and
> not 0 (on success). This is because the path the caller passed was
> released and is now different from what is was before, and the caller
> expects a return value of 0 to mean both success and that the path
> has not changed, while a return value of 1 means both success and
> signals the caller that it can not reuse the path, it has to perform
> another tree search.
> 
> Even though this is a case that should not be triggered on normal
> circumstances or very rare at least, its consequences can be very
> unpredictable (especially when replaying a log tree).
> 
> Fixes: 16e7549f045d ("Btrfs: incompatible format change to remove hole extents")
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âfs/btrfs/tree-log.c |ÂÂÂÂ1 +
> Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> --- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
> @@ -3835,6 +3835,7 @@ fill_holes:
> Â			ASSERT(ret == 0);
> Â			src = src_path->nodes[0];
> Â			i = 0;
> +			need_find_last_extent = true;
> Â		}
> Â
> Â		btrfs_item_key_to_cpu(src, &key, i);

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