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From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Cc: <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: kill BUG_ON in do_relocation
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:58:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc03eaca-a75e-b80c-9440-c2f07306bfee@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160915190108.GA23660@localhost.localdomain>



On 09/15/2016 03:01 PM, Liu Bo wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:19:04AM -0700, Liu Bo wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 01:31:31PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
>>> On 09/14/2016 01:29 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09/14/2016 01:13 PM, Josef Bacik wrote:
>>>>> On 09/14/2016 12:27 PM, Liu Bo wrote:
>>>>>> While updating btree, we try to push items between sibling
>>>>>> nodes/leaves in order to keep height as low as possible.
>>>>>> But we don't memset the original places with zero when
>>>>>> pushing items so that we could end up leaving stale content
>>>>>> in nodes/leaves.  One may read the above stale content by
>>>>>> increasing btree blocks' @nritems.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok this sounds really bad.  Is this as bad as I think it sounds?  We
>>>>> should probably fix this like right now right?
>>>>
>>>> He's bumping @nritems with a fuzzer I think?  As in this happens when someone
>>>> forces it (or via some other bug) but not in normal operations.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh ok if this happens with a fuzzer than this is fine, but I'd rather do
>>> -EIO so we know this is something bad with the fs.
>>
>> -EIO may be more appropriate to be given while reading btree blocks and
>> checking their validation?
>
> Looks like EIO doesn't fit into this case, either, do we have any errno
> representing 'corrupted filesystem'?

That's EIO.  Sometimes the EIO is big enough we have to abort, but 
really the abort is just adding bonus.

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-15 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14 16:27 [PATCH] Btrfs: kill BUG_ON in do_relocation Liu Bo
2016-09-14 17:13 ` Josef Bacik
2016-09-14 17:29   ` Chris Mason
2016-09-14 17:31     ` Josef Bacik
2016-09-14 18:19       ` Liu Bo
2016-09-15 19:01         ` Liu Bo
2016-09-15 18:58           ` Chris Mason [this message]
2016-09-19 18:01             ` David Sterba
2016-09-19 23:11               ` Liu Bo
2016-09-20  8:03                 ` David Sterba
2016-09-20 17:59                   ` Liu Bo
2016-09-21  8:14                     ` David Sterba
2016-09-14 18:16   ` Liu Bo
2016-09-23 21:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Liu Bo
2016-10-11 14:25   ` David Sterba

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