Re: [PATCH] btrfs: send: fix a failure when looking for data backrefs after relocation

[David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 10:21:43AM +0000, fdmanana@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> 
> During a send, when trying to find roots from which to clone data extents,
> if the leaf of our file extent item was obtained before relocation for a
> data block group finished, we can end up trying to lookup for backrefs
> for an extent location (file extent item's disk_bytenr) that is not in
> use anymore. That is, the extent was reallocated and the transaction used
> for the relocation was committed. This makes the backref lookup not find
> anything and we fail at find_extent_clone() with -EIO and log an error
> message like the following:
> 
>   [ 7642.897365] BTRFS error (device sdc): did not find backref in send_root. inode=881, offset=2592768, disk_byte=1292025856 found extent=1292025856
> 
> This is because we are checking if relocation happened after we check if
> we found the backref for the file extent item we are processing. We should
> do it before, and in case relocation happened, do not attempt to clone and
> instead fallback to issuing write commands, which will read the correct
> data from the new extent location. The current check is being done too
> late, so fix this by moving it to right after we do the backref lookup and
> before checking if we found our own backref.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
> ---
> 
> David, this can be squashed into the patch:
> 
>    "btrfs: make send work with concurrent block group relocation"

Squashed, thanks.