Re: [PATCH v2] fs: clear writeback errors in inode_init_always

From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, fstests@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: clear writeback errors in inode_init_always
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 08:14:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180522121400.GB3751@bfoster.bfoster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180522040631.GD14384@magnolia>

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 09:06:31PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> In inode_init_always(), we clear the inode mapping flags, which clears
> any retained error (AS_EIO, AS_ENOSPC) bits.  Unfortunately, we do not
> also clear wb_err, which means that old mapping errors can leak through
> to new inodes.
> 
> This is crucial for the XFS inode allocation path because we recycle old
> in-core inodes and we do not want error state from an old file to leak
> into the new file.  This bug was discovered by running generic/036 and
> generic/047 in a loop and noticing that the EIOs generated by the
> collision of direct and buffered writes in generic/036 would survive the
> remount between 036 and 047, and get reported to the fsyncs (on
> different files!) in generic/047.
> 
> Since we're changing the semantics of inode_init_always, we must also
> change xfs_reinit_inode to retain the writeback error state when we go
> to recover an inode that has been torn down in the vfs but not yet
> disposed of by XFS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> ---
> v2: retain AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC across xfs inode reinit
> ---
>  fs/inode.c          |    1 +
>  fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c |    9 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
...
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
> index 164350d91efc..d01f9544ff01 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
> @@ -298,6 +298,10 @@ xfs_reinit_inode(
>  	uint64_t	version = inode_peek_iversion(inode);
>  	umode_t		mode = inode->i_mode;
>  	dev_t		dev = inode->i_rdev;
> +	errseq_t	old_err = inode->i_mapping->wb_err;
> +	bool		as_eio = test_bit(AS_EIO, &inode->i_mapping->flags);
> +	bool		as_enospc = test_bit(AS_ENOSPC,
> +					     &inode->i_mapping->flags);
>  
>  	error = inode_init_always(mp->m_super, inode);
>  
> @@ -306,6 +310,11 @@ xfs_reinit_inode(
>  	inode_set_iversion_queried(inode, version);
>  	inode->i_mode = mode;
>  	inode->i_rdev = dev;
> +	inode->i_mapping->wb_err = old_err;
> +	if (as_eio)
> +		set_bit(AS_EIO, &inode->i_mapping->flags);
> +	if (as_enospc)
> +		set_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &inode->i_mapping->flags);

I'm wondering how safe this is. Can't the associated on-disk inode have
been unlinked and reallocated anew across this kind of reinit of the
in-core ip?

Brian

>  	return error;
>  }
>  
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