Patch "ext4: inplace xattr block update fails to deduplicate blocks" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

Patch "ext4: inplace xattr block update fails to deduplicate blocks" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ext4: inplace xattr block update fails to deduplicate blocks

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ext4-inplace-xattr-block-update-fails-to-deduplicate-blocks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ec00022030da5761518476096626338bd67df57a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 22:41:42 -0400
Subject: ext4: inplace xattr block update fails to deduplicate blocks

From: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>

commit ec00022030da5761518476096626338bd67df57a upstream.

When an xattr block has a single reference, block is updated inplace
and it is reinserted to the cache. Later, a cache lookup is performed
to see whether an existing block has the same contents. This cache
lookup will most of the time return the just inserted entry so
deduplication is not achieved.

Running the following test script will produce two xattr blocks which
can be observed in "File ACL: " line of debugfs output:

  mke2fs -b 1024 -I 128 -F -O extent /dev/sdb 1G
  mount /dev/sdb /mnt/sdb

  touch /mnt/sdb/{x,y}

  setfattr -n user.1 -v aaa /mnt/sdb/x
  setfattr -n user.2 -v bbb /mnt/sdb/x

  setfattr -n user.1 -v aaa /mnt/sdb/y
  setfattr -n user.2 -v bbb /mnt/sdb/y

  debugfs -R 'stat x' /dev/sdb | cat
  debugfs -R 'stat y' /dev/sdb | cat

This patch defers the reinsertion to the cache so that we can locate
other blocks with the same contents.

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/xattr.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -837,8 +837,6 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, s
 				if (!IS_LAST_ENTRY(s->first))
 					ext4_xattr_rehash(header(s->base),
 							  s->here);
-				ext4_xattr_cache_insert(ext4_mb_cache,
-					bs->bh);
 			}
 			ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(inode, bs->bh);
 			unlock_buffer(bs->bh);
@@ -959,6 +957,7 @@ inserted:
 		} else if (bs->bh && s->base == bs->bh->b_data) {
 			/* We were modifying this block in-place. */
 			ea_bdebug(bs->bh, "keeping this block");
+			ext4_xattr_cache_insert(ext4_mb_cache, bs->bh);
 			new_bh = bs->bh;
 			get_bh(new_bh);
 		} else {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tahsin@google.com are

queue-4.9/ext4-inplace-xattr-block-update-fails-to-deduplicate-blocks.patch