Re: xattr hash error in 4.13-rc with overlayfs over ext4

["zhangyi (F)" <yizhang089@gmail.com>]

On 2017/8/3 19:10, Miklos Szeredi Wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com> wrote:
>>>> Still no luck reproducing the error. I am using the test script below
>>>> at v4.13-rc2. Do you mind checking my script to see what I am missing?
>>>
>>> Don't know.   I can reliably reproduce it under UML, but not with a
>>> VM.  What the hell is going on?
>>>
>>
>> Is it the same ext4 image for UML and VM? same image size? same mkfs version?
> 
> Exact same starting image.  Same userspace.  Same EXT4 kernel config options.
> 
> Thanks,
> Miklos
> 

Hi:
I think the root cause of this problem is the hash value not updated
when we overwrite the same xattr, please see ext4_xattr_set_entry():

static int ext4_xattr_set_entry(struct ext4_xattr_info *i,
				struct ext4_xattr_search *s,
				handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
				bool is_block)
{
...
	if (new_size && new_size == old_size) {
		size_t offs = le16_to_cpu(here->e_value_offs);
		void *val = s->base + offs;

		here->e_value_size = cpu_to_le32(i->value_len);
		if (i->value == EXT4_ZERO_XATTR_VALUE) {
			memset(val, 0, new_size);
		} else {
			memcpy(val, i->value, i->value_len);
			/* Clear padding bytes. */
			memset(val + i->value_len, 0, new_size - i->value_len);
		}

		/* Forget updating *here->e_hash* and *s->base->h_hash* here. */

		return 0;
	}
...
	/* Call ext4_xattr_hash_entry && ext4_xattr_rehash first set */
...
}

Thanks,
ZhangYi