[PATCH v3 3/3] xfs: add an inode log item recovery verifier

From: Weiming Shi

Date: Sun Jul 19 2026 - 07:31:12 EST


The previous patches let each log item type validate its own formatted
structures through an xlog_recover_item_ops->verify method, run once the
item is fully decoded. Add the first verifier, for inode items.

Log recovery previously validated a recovered inode item's structures
inside the pass2 decode and replay code, one open-coded check at a time,
which was hard to read and to audit for what was still unchecked.
xlog_recover_inode_verify() instead checks in one place that the core and
each fork region implied by ilf_fields is declared, that the log dinode is
present and large enough, that its version matches the mount, that
di_forkoff is within the literal area, and that the verbatim-copied fork
regions fit their destination fork.

Because the log dinode checks now run before pass2, drop the equivalent
open-coded checks (the log dinode magic and the dead di_forkoff bound)
from xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2(). The checks that need the on-disk
inode buffer (its magic, the LSN and di_flushiter replay-ordering
decisions, the di_mode/di_format consistency, and the final
xfs_dinode_verify()) cannot be hoisted and stay in pass2.

This covers the self-contained log dinode structure. The btree-root fork
formats are converted from a larger in-core form on replay and their
record count is not bounded here yet; clamping xfs_bmbt_to_bmdr() and the
rt btree converters against the destination fork is left as follow-up.

Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c
index 6b6ac92964d0..8308f064cecc 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c
@@ -367,13 +367,6 @@ xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2(
goto out_release;
}
ldip = item->ri_buf[1].iov_base;
- if (XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, ldip->di_magic != XFS_DINODE_MAGIC)) {
- xfs_alert(mp,
- "%s: Bad inode log record, rec ptr "PTR_FMT", ino %lld",
- __func__, item, in_f->ilf_ino);
- error = -EFSCORRUPTED;
- goto out_release;
- }

/*
* If the inode has an LSN in it, recover the inode only if the on-disk
@@ -462,15 +455,6 @@ xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2(
if (error)
goto out_release;

- if (unlikely(ldip->di_forkoff > mp->m_sb.sb_inodesize)) {
- XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR("Bad log dinode fork offset",
- XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW, mp, ldip, sizeof(*ldip));
- xfs_alert(mp,
- "Bad inode 0x%llx, di_forkoff 0x%x",
- in_f->ilf_ino, ldip->di_forkoff);
- error = -EFSCORRUPTED;
- goto out_release;
- }
isize = xfs_log_dinode_size(mp);
if (unlikely(item->ri_buf[1].iov_len > isize)) {
XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR("Bad log dinode size", XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW,
@@ -597,10 +581,81 @@ xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2(
return error;
}

+/*
+ * Validate the log dinode and fork regions of a decoded inode item. Checks
+ * that need the on-disk inode buffer stay in xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2().
+ */
+STATIC int
+xlog_recover_inode_verify(
+ struct xlog *log,
+ struct xlog_recover_item *item)
+{
+ struct xfs_mount *mp = log->l_mp;
+ struct xfs_inode_log_format *in_f;
+ struct xfs_inode_log_format in_f_buf;
+ struct xfs_log_dinode *ldip;
+ unsigned int litino = XFS_LITINO(mp);
+ unsigned int dsize, asize;
+ int attr_index;
+ int error;
+
+ if (item->ri_buf[0].iov_len == sizeof(struct xfs_inode_log_format)) {
+ in_f = item->ri_buf[0].iov_base;
+ } else {
+ in_f = &in_f_buf;
+ error = xfs_inode_item_format_convert(&item->ri_buf[0], in_f);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+ }
+
+ /* The inode core is always logged as the log dinode in ri_buf[1]. */
+ if (XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, in_f->ilf_size < 2) ||
+ XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp,
+ item->ri_buf[1].iov_len < xfs_log_dinode_size(mp)))
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+
+ ldip = item->ri_buf[1].iov_base;
+ if (XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, ldip->di_magic != XFS_DINODE_MAGIC) ||
+ XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, !xfs_dinode_good_version(mp, ldip->di_version)) ||
+ XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, ldip->di_forkoff >= (litino >> 3)))
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+
+ if (ldip->di_forkoff) {
+ dsize = ldip->di_forkoff << 3;
+ asize = litino - (ldip->di_forkoff << 3);
+ } else {
+ dsize = litino;
+ asize = 0;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Btree-root forks are logged in a larger in-core form and converted on
+ * replay, so their region is not bounded by the on-disk fork size here.
+ */
+ if (in_f->ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_DFORK) {
+ if (XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, in_f->ilf_size < 3))
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ if ((in_f->ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_DFORK) != XFS_ILOG_DBROOT &&
+ XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, item->ri_buf[2].iov_len > dsize))
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ }
+ if (in_f->ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_AFORK) {
+ attr_index = (in_f->ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_DFORK) ? 3 : 2;
+ if (XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, in_f->ilf_size < attr_index + 1))
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ if ((in_f->ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_AFORK) != XFS_ILOG_ABROOT &&
+ XFS_IS_CORRUPT(mp, item->ri_buf[attr_index].iov_len > asize))
+ return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
const struct xlog_recover_item_ops xlog_inode_item_ops = {
.item_type = XFS_LI_INODE,
.max_regions = 4,
.min_regions = 2,
+ .verify = xlog_recover_inode_verify,
.ra_pass2 = xlog_recover_inode_ra_pass2,
.commit_pass2 = xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2,
};
--
2.43.0