Patch "Btrfs: send, fix file hole not being preserved due to inline extent" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    Btrfs: send, fix file hole not being preserved due to inline extent

to the 3.18-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:
     btrfs-send-fix-file-hole-not-being-preserved-due-to-inline-extent.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 foo@baz Thu Mar 22 15:16:04 CET 2018
From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 20:31:00 +0100
Subject: Btrfs: send, fix file hole not being preserved due to inline extent

From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>


[ Upstream commit e1cbfd7bf6dabdac561c75d08357571f44040a45 ]

Normally we don't have inline extents followed by regular extents, but
there's currently at least one harmless case where this happens. For
example, when the page size is 4Kb and compression is enabled:

  $ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdb
  $ mount -o compress /dev/sdb /mnt
  $ xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xaa 0 4K" -c "fsync" /mnt/foobar
  $ xfs_io -c "pwrite -S 0xbb 8K 4K" -c "fsync" /mnt/foobar

In this case we get a compressed inline extent, representing 4Kb of
data, followed by a hole extent and then a regular data extent. The
inline extent was not expanded/converted to a regular extent exactly
because it represents 4Kb of data. This does not cause any apparent
problem (such as the issue solved by commit e1699d2d7bf6
("btrfs: add missing memset while reading compressed inline extents"))
except trigger an unexpected case in the incremental send code path
that makes us issue an operation to write a hole when it's not needed,
resulting in more writes at the receiver and wasting space at the
receiver.

So teach the incremental send code to deal with this particular case.

The issue can be currently triggered by running fstests btrfs/137 with
compression enabled (MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o compress" ./check btrfs/137).

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/btrfs/send.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
@@ -4663,13 +4663,19 @@ static int is_extent_unchanged(struct se
 	while (key.offset < ekey->offset + left_len) {
 		ei = btrfs_item_ptr(eb, slot, struct btrfs_file_extent_item);
 		right_type = btrfs_file_extent_type(eb, ei);
-		if (right_type != BTRFS_FILE_EXTENT_REG) {
+		if (right_type != BTRFS_FILE_EXTENT_REG &&
+		    right_type != BTRFS_FILE_EXTENT_INLINE) {
 			ret = 0;
 			goto out;
 		}
 
 		right_disknr = btrfs_file_extent_disk_bytenr(eb, ei);
-		right_len = btrfs_file_extent_num_bytes(eb, ei);
+		if (right_type == BTRFS_FILE_EXTENT_INLINE) {
+			right_len = btrfs_file_extent_inline_len(eb, slot, ei);
+			right_len = PAGE_ALIGN(right_len);
+		} else {
+			right_len = btrfs_file_extent_num_bytes(eb, ei);
+		}
 		right_offset = btrfs_file_extent_offset(eb, ei);
 		right_gen = btrfs_file_extent_generation(eb, ei);
 
@@ -4683,6 +4689,19 @@ static int is_extent_unchanged(struct se
 			goto out;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * We just wanted to see if when we have an inline extent, what
+		 * follows it is a regular extent (wanted to check the above
+		 * condition for inline extents too). This should normally not
+		 * happen but it's possible for example when we have an inline
+		 * compressed extent representing data with a size matching
+		 * the page size (currently the same as sector size).
+		 */
+		if (right_type == BTRFS_FILE_EXTENT_INLINE) {
+			ret = 0;
+			goto out;
+		}
+
 		left_offset_fixed = left_offset;
 		if (key.offset < ekey->offset) {
 			/* Fix the right offset for 2a and 7. */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fdmanana@suse.com are

queue-3.18/btrfs-send-fix-file-hole-not-being-preserved-due-to-inline-extent.patch