From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: chandan.babu@oracle.com, chandanrlinux@gmail.com,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] xfs: fix maxlevels comparisons in the btree staging code
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 08:59:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210922155955.GF570615@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUmeIkK4aBCW1lJK@infradead.org>
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 09:56:02AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 06:29:59PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> >
> > The btree geometry computation function has an off-by-one error in that
> > it does not allow maximally tall btrees (nlevels == XFS_BTREE_MAXLEVELS).
> > This can result in repairs failing unnecessarily on very fragmented
> > filesystems. Subsequent patches to remove MAXLEVELS usage in favor of
> > the per-btree type computations will make this a much more likely
> > occurrence.
>
> Shouldn't this go in first as a fix?
It probably should, though I haven't seen any bug reports about this
fault. I'll move it to the front of the patchset.
--D
> Looks good:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-22 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-18 1:29 [PATCHSET RFC chandan 00/14] xfs: support dynamic btree cursor height Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 01/14] xfs: remove xfs_btree_cur_t typedef Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:53 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-21 8:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 02/14] xfs: don't allocate scrub contexts on the stack Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:53 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-20 17:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-21 8:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 03/14] xfs: dynamically allocate btree scrub context structure Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:53 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-21 8:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-22 16:17 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 04/14] xfs: stricter btree height checking when looking for errors Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:54 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 05/14] xfs: stricter btree height checking when scanning for btree roots Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:54 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 06/14] xfs: check that bc_nlevels never overflows Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:54 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-21 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 07/14] xfs: support dynamic btree cursor heights Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:55 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-21 8:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 08/14] xfs: refactor btree cursor allocation function Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:55 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-21 8:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-18 1:29 ` [PATCH 09/14] xfs: fix maxlevels comparisons in the btree staging code Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:55 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-21 8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-22 15:59 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2021-09-18 1:30 ` [PATCH 10/14] xfs: encode the max btree height in the cursor Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:55 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-21 8:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-18 1:30 ` [PATCH 11/14] xfs: dynamically allocate cursors based on maxlevels Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:56 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-20 23:06 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-20 23:36 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-21 9:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-09-22 18:55 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-22 17:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-22 23:10 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-23 1:58 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-23 5:56 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-18 1:30 ` [PATCH 12/14] xfs: compute actual maximum btree height for critical reservation calculation Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:56 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-18 1:30 ` [PATCH 13/14] xfs: compute the maximum height of the rmap btree when reflink enabled Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:56 ` Chandan Babu R
2021-09-18 1:30 ` [PATCH 14/14] xfs: kill XFS_BTREE_MAXLEVELS Darrick J. Wong
2021-09-20 9:57 ` Chandan Babu R
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