Re: [PATCH] fs/9p/xattr.c: catch the error of p9_client_clunk when setting xattr failed

[piaojun]

Hi Dominique,

On 2018/7/25 11:32, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> piaojun wrote on Wed, Jul 25, 2018:
>> In my testing, v9fs_fid_xattr_set will return successfully even if the
>> backend ext4 filesystem has no space to store xattr key-value. That will
>> cause inconsistent behavior between front end and back end. The reason is
>> that lsetxattr will be triggered by p9_client_clunk, and unfortunately we
>> did not catch the error. This patch will catch the error to notify upper
>> caller.
>>
>> p9_client_clunk (in 9p)
>>   p9_client_rpc(clnt, P9_TCLUNK, "d", fid->fid);
>>     v9fs_clunk (in qemu)
>>       put_fid
>>         free_fid
>>           v9fs_xattr_fid_clunk
>>             v9fs_co_lsetxattr
>>               s->ops->lsetxattr
>>                 ext4_xattr_user_set (in host ext4 filesystem)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Good catch!
> 
> LGTM on its own but see comment below for further error checking.
> Please let me know if you want to do this in a v2 or submit a separate
> patch altogether, I can pick this one up as it is.
> 
>> ---
>>  fs/9p/xattr.c | 6 ++++--
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/9p/xattr.c b/fs/9p/xattr.c
>> index f329eee..352abc3 100644
>> --- a/fs/9p/xattr.c
>> +++ b/fs/9p/xattr.c
>> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ int v9fs_fid_xattr_set(struct p9_fid *fid, const char *name,
>>  {
>>  	struct kvec kvec = {.iov_base = (void *)value, .iov_len = value_len};
>>  	struct iov_iter from;
>> -	int retval;
>> +	int retval, err;
>>
>>  	iov_iter_kvec(&from, WRITE | ITER_KVEC, &kvec, 1, value_len);
>>
>> @@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ int v9fs_fid_xattr_set(struct p9_fid *fid, const char *name,
>>  			 retval);
>>  	else
>>  		p9_client_write(fid, 0, &from, &retval);
> 
> I'm not sure what to do about this but it's also possible for
> p9_client_write to not write the full length without setting and error.
> 
> We should probably compare the return value of p9_client_write and
> value_len to detect short writes and return an error in this case.
> 
It looks like we could identify short writes error from the *err. If no
error case breaks the while loop, the total equal to the whole data len.

Thanks,
Jun

>> -	p9_client_clunk(fid);
>> +	err = p9_client_clunk(fid);
>> +	if (!retval && err)
>> +		retval = err;
>>  	return retval;
>>  }
>>
>> -- 
> .
>