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From: Dave Chinner <dgc@kernel.org>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: cem@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 15/48] xfs: handle zero length continuation op headers during recovery
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:01:05 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261013060204.3138690-16-dgc@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261013060204.3138690-1-dgc@kernel.org>

Recovery has always had to cope with zero length op headers, but only ever
handled them as a special case in the bespoke transaction header decode.
Routing the transaction header through the generic item assembly dropped that
handling, so handle zero length continuation op headers generically for all
items instead.

A zero length op header that opens a new item carries nothing to decode, so
the item cannot be initialised until the continuation that follows arrives.
Leave a sentinel in r_cur_item for this case so the continuation is decoded as
the first region of the new item. Zero length op headers on subsequent regions
are handled naturally by the region iterator. A continuation that reaches the
append path with no item under assembly is now treated as a corrupt log.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@kernel.org>
---
 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h |  9 +++++++
 fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c        | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h
index f4dbed616ee6..d2e128fca058 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_recover.h
@@ -171,6 +171,15 @@ struct xlog_recover {
 	struct xlog_recover_item *r_cur_item;	/* item currently being rebuilt */
 };
 
+/*
+ * The current recovery item can sometimes start with a zero length continuation
+ * op header. In this case there is nothing to decode, so the recovery item
+ * cannot be initialised yet. Leave this sentinel in r_cur_item instead so the
+ * continuation initialises the recovery item from the start of the continued
+ * region data.
+ */
+#define XLOG_RECOVER_CONT_ITEM	((struct xlog_recover_item *)1UL)
+
 #define ITEM_TYPE(i)	(*(unsigned short *)(i)->ri_buf[0].iov_base)
 
 #define	XLOG_RECOVER_CRCPASS	0
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
index 37b5dbc3b239..90f841bf0aa5 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
@@ -2393,6 +2393,18 @@ xlog_recover_add_to_cont_trans(
 	char			*ptr, *old_ptr;
 	int			old_len;
 
+	/*
+	 * A continuation must append to a region under assembly. The only valid
+	 * way to reach here without one is a region opened by a zero length op
+	 * header, which the dispatch in xlog_recovery_process_trans() routes to
+	 * xlog_recover_add_to_trans() instead. So no current item here means the
+	 * log is corrupt.
+	 */
+	if (!item) {
+		xfs_warn(log->l_mp, "%s: continuation with no item", __func__);
+		return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+	}
+
 	old_ptr = item->ri_buf[item->ri_cnt-1].iov_base;
 	old_len = item->ri_buf[item->ri_cnt-1].iov_len;
 
@@ -2438,8 +2450,17 @@ xlog_recover_add_to_trans(
 	char			*ptr;
 	int			error;
 
-	if (!len)
+	/*
+	 * A zero length region that opens a new item has nothing we can decode.
+	 * Leave a sentinel in r_cur_item so that xlog_recover_process_trans()
+	 * will call here again with the continuation that carries the data we
+	 * need to initialise the recovery item.
+	 */
+	if (!len) {
+		if (!trans->r_cur_item)
+			trans->r_cur_item = XLOG_RECOVER_CONT_ITEM;
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	ptr = xlog_kvmalloc(len);
 	memcpy(ptr, dp, len);
@@ -2454,7 +2475,7 @@ xlog_recover_add_to_trans(
 	 * fragment here.
 	 */
 	item = trans->r_cur_item;
-	if (!item) {
+	if (!item || item == XLOG_RECOVER_CONT_ITEM) {
 		struct xfs_inode_log_format *in_f = /* any will do */
 			(struct xfs_inode_log_format *)ptr;
 
@@ -2510,9 +2531,10 @@ xlog_recover_free_trans(
 
 	/*
 	 * An item still being rebuilt has not been added to the item queue yet,
-	 * so free it separately.
+	 * so free it separately. The sentinel is not a real item and has nothing
+	 * to free.
 	 */
-	if (trans->r_cur_item)
+	if (trans->r_cur_item && trans->r_cur_item != XLOG_RECOVER_CONT_ITEM)
 		xlog_recover_free_item(trans->r_cur_item);
 
 	/* Free the transaction recover structure */
@@ -2557,15 +2579,25 @@ xlog_recovery_process_trans(
 	 */
 	switch (flags) {
 	/* expected flag values */
+	case XLOG_WAS_CONT_TRANS:
+		/*
+		 * A continuation appends to the region under assembly, unless
+		 * the region was opened by a zero length op header. In that case
+		 * r_cur_item holds the sentinel and this continuation carries
+		 * the first data of the region, so fall through and decode it as
+		 * the first region of a new item.
+		 */
+		if (trans->r_cur_item != XLOG_RECOVER_CONT_ITEM) {
+			error = xlog_recover_add_to_cont_trans(log, trans, dp,
+							len, region_complete);
+			break;
+		}
+		fallthrough;
 	case 0:
 	case XLOG_CONTINUE_TRANS:
 		error = xlog_recover_add_to_trans(log, trans, dp, len,
 						  region_complete);
 		break;
-	case XLOG_WAS_CONT_TRANS:
-		error = xlog_recover_add_to_cont_trans(log, trans, dp, len,
-						       region_complete);
-		break;
 	case XLOG_COMMIT_TRANS:
 		error = xlog_recover_commit_trans(log, trans, pass,
 						  buffer_list);
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-13  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-13  6:00 [RFC] [PATCH 00/48] Validate journal log items during log recovery Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 01/48] xfs: set the unmount record operation header length Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 02/48] xfs: add log recovery item validation design document Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 03/48] xfs: lift transaction header parsing out of the region assembly Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 04/48] xfs: track transaction header decode state explicitly Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 05/48] xfs: track the log item being rebuilt with an explicit pointer Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 06/48] xfs: complete log items explicitly during recovery Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 07/48] xfs: add log item validation infrastructure to log recovery Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 08/48] xfs: recover the transaction header as a validated item type Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:00 ` [PATCH 09/48] xfs: factor out xlog_recover_validate_ophdr() Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 10/48] xfs: validate operation header length and alignment during recovery Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 11/48] xfs: validate the operation header padding " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 12/48] xfs: validate the operation header flags " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 13/48] xfs: enforce zero length control records " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 14/48] xfs: validate the unmount record " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 16/48] xfs: bound the assembled region size " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 17/48] xfs: dump the corrupt region when log item validation fails Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 18/48] xfs: validate fixed size log items during recovery Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 19/48] xfs: validate extent free " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 20/48] xfs: validate and convert extent free intents " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 21/48] xfs: validate and convert extent free done items " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 22/48] xfs: validate rmap update intents " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 23/48] xfs: validate rmap update done items " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 24/48] xfs: validate refcount update intents " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 25/48] xfs: validate refcount update done items " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 26/48] xfs: validate bmap update intents " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 27/48] xfs: validate bmap update done items " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 28/48] xfs: validate mapping exchange intents " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 29/48] xfs: validate mapping exchange done items " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 30/48] xfs: validate dquot " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 31/48] xfs: validate attr done " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 32/48] xfs: validate attr intents " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 33/48] xfs: convert inode items to host format " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 34/48] xfs: allow xfs_imap() to map without an inode btree lookup Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 35/48] xfs: validate the inode item format header during recovery Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 36/48] xfs: validate the logged inode core " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 37/48] xfs: validate the logged inode forks " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 38/48] xfs: validate logged local fork contents " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 39/48] xfs: validate logged extent " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 40/48] xfs: allow a long format btree root to be checked without a cursor Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 41/48] xfs: validate logged btree fork roots during recovery Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 42/48] xfs: validate logged metadata " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 43/48] xfs: validate buffer item region count " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 44/48] xfs: validate buffer item regions " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 45/48] xfs: validate the whole buffer item " Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 46/48] xfs: remove redundant buffer checks from recovery replay Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 47/48] xfs: fail recovery on a buffer type mismatch Dave Chinner
2026-10-13  6:01 ` [PATCH 48/48] xfs: validate logged dquot buffers during recovery Dave Chinner

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