[PATCH 4/5] cachefiles: correct the return value of cachefiles_check_volume_xattr()

From: libaokun
Date: Tue Apr 23 2024 - 23:37:34 EST


From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>

In cachefiles_check_volume_xattr(), the error returned by vfs_getxattr is
not passed to ret, so it ends up returning -ESTALE, which leads to an
endless loop as follows:

cachefiles_acquire_volume
retry:
cachefiles_check_volume_xattr
// return -ESTALE
cachefiles_bury_object
// EIO causes rename failure
goto retry;

So pass the error code to ret when xlen < 0 to avoid the above problem.

Fixes: 32e150037dce ("fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
index bcb6173943ee..20e4a4391090 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ int cachefiles_check_volume_xattr(struct cachefiles_volume *volume)
xlen = vfs_getxattr(&nop_mnt_idmap, dentry, cachefiles_xattr_cache, buf, len);
if (xlen != len) {
if (xlen < 0) {
+ ret = xlen;
trace_cachefiles_vfs_error(NULL, d_inode(dentry), xlen,
cachefiles_trace_getxattr_error);
if (xlen == -EIO)
--
2.39.2