[PATCH v2 03/23] xfs: define parent pointer xattr format

Andrey Albershteyn
2023-04-04T14:54:55Z

From: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>

We need to define the parent pointer attribute format before we start
adding support for it into all the code that needs to use it. The EA
format we will use encodes the following information:

name={parent inode #, parent inode generation, dirent offset}
value={dirent filename}

The inode/gen gives all the information we need to reliably identify the
parent without requiring child->parent lock ordering, and allows
userspace to do pathname component level reconstruction without the
kernel ever needing to verify the parent itself as part of ioctl calls.

By using the dirent offset in the EA name, we have a method of knowing
the exact parent pointer EA we need to modify/remove in rename/unlink
without an unbound EA name search.

By keeping the dirent name in the value, we have enough information to
be able to validate and reconstruct damaged directory trees. While the
diroffset of a filename alone is not unique enough to identify the
child, the {diroffset,filename,child_inode} tuple is sufficient. That
is, if the diroffset gets reused and points to a different filename, we
can detect that from the contents of EA. If a link of the same name is
created, then we can check whether it points at the same inode as the
parent EA we current have.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
---
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h
index 3dc03968bba6..b02b67f1999e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h
@@ -805,4 +805,29 @@ static inline unsigned int xfs_dir2_dirblock_bytes(struct xfs_sb *sbp)
xfs_failaddr_t xfs_da3_blkinfo_verify(struct xfs_buf *bp,
struct xfs_da3_blkinfo *hdr3);

+/*
+ * Parent pointer attribute format definition
+ *
+ * EA name encodes the parent inode number, generation and the offset of
+ * the dirent that points to the child inode. The EA value contains the
+ * same name as the dirent in the parent directory.
+ */
+struct xfs_parent_name_rec {
+ __be64 p_ino;
+ __be32 p_gen;
+ __be32 p_diroffset;
+};
+
+/*
+ * incore version of the above, also contains name pointers so callers
+ * can pass/obtain all the parent pointer information in a single structure
+ */
+struct xfs_parent_name_irec {
+ xfs_ino_t p_ino;
+ uint32_t p_gen;
+ xfs_dir2_dataptr_t p_diroffset;
+ const char *p_name;
+ uint8_t p_namelen;
+};
+
#endif /* __XFS_DA_FORMAT_H__ */
--
2.38.4