[PATCH 6.12 026/567] hfsplus: fix volume corruption issue for generic/073

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:15:43Z

From: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>

[ Upstream commit 24e17a29cf7537f0947f26a50f85319abd723c6c ]

The xfstests' test-case generic/073 leaves HFS+ volume
in corrupted state:

sudo ./check generic/073
FSTYP -- hfsplus
PLATFORM -- Linux/x86_64 hfsplus-testing-0001 6.17.0-rc1+ #4 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Oct 1 15:02:44 PDT 2025
MKFS_OPTIONS -- /dev/loop51
MOUNT_OPTIONS -- /dev/loop51 /mnt/scratch

generic/073 _check_generic_filesystem: filesystem on /dev/loop51 is inconsistent
(see XFSTESTS-2/xfstests-dev/results//generic/073.full for details)

Ran: generic/073
Failures: generic/073
Failed 1 of 1 tests

sudo fsck.hfsplus -d /dev/loop51
** /dev/loop51
Using cacheBlockSize=32K cacheTotalBlock=1024 cacheSize=32768K.
Executing fsck_hfs (version 540.1-Linux).
** Checking non-journaled HFS Plus Volume.
The volume name is untitled
** Checking extents overflow file.
** Checking catalog file.
** Checking multi-linked files.
** Checking catalog hierarchy.
Invalid directory item count
(It should be 1 instead of 0)
** Checking extended attributes file.
** Checking volume bitmap.
** Checking volume information.
Verify Status: VIStat = 0x0000, ABTStat = 0x0000 EBTStat = 0x0000
CBTStat = 0x0000 CatStat = 0x00004000
** Repairing volume.
** Rechecking volume.
** Checking non-journaled HFS Plus Volume.
The volume name is untitled
** Checking extents overflow file.
** Checking catalog file.
** Checking multi-linked files.
** Checking catalog hierarchy.
** Checking extended attributes file.
** Checking volume bitmap.
** Checking volume information.
** The volume untitled was repaired successfully.

The test is doing these steps on final phase:

mv $SCRATCH_MNT/testdir_1/bar $SCRATCH_MNT/testdir_2/bar
$XFS_IO_PROG -c "fsync" $SCRATCH_MNT/testdir_1
$XFS_IO_PROG -c "fsync" $SCRATCH_MNT/foo

So, we move file bar from testdir_1 into testdir_2 folder. It means that HFS+
logic decrements the number of entries in testdir_1 and increments number of
entries in testdir_2. Finally, we do fsync only for testdir_1 and foo but not
for testdir_2. As a result, this is the reason why fsck.hfsplus detects the
volume corruption afterwards.

This patch fixes the issue by means of adding the
hfsplus_cat_write_inode() call for old_dir and new_dir in
hfsplus_rename() after the successful ending of
hfsplus_rename_cat(). This method makes modification of in-core
inode objects for old_dir and new_dir but it doesn't save these
modifications in Catalog File's entries. It was expected that
hfsplus_write_inode() will save these modifications afterwards.
However, because generic/073 does fsync only for testdir_1 and foo
then testdir_2 modification hasn't beed saved into Catalog File's
entry and it was flushed without this modification. And it was
detected by fsck.hfsplus. Now, hfsplus_rename() stores in Catalog
File all modified entries and correct state of Catalog File will
be flushed during hfsplus_file_fsync() call. Finally, it makes
fsck.hfsplus happy.

sudo ./check generic/073
FSTYP -- hfsplus
PLATFORM -- Linux/x86_64 hfsplus-testing-0001 6.18.0-rc3+ #93 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Nov 12 14:37:49 PST 2025
MKFS_OPTIONS -- /dev/loop51
MOUNT_OPTIONS -- /dev/loop51 /mnt/scratch

generic/073 32s ... 32s
Ran: generic/073
Passed all 1 tests

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
cc: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251112232522.814038-1-slava@dubeyko.com
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/dir.c b/fs/hfsplus/dir.c
index f5c4b3e31a1c2..33154c720a4e9 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/dir.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/dir.c
@@ -552,8 +552,13 @@ static int hfsplus_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
res = hfsplus_rename_cat((u32)(unsigned long)old_dentry->d_fsdata,
old_dir, &old_dentry->d_name,
new_dir, &new_dentry->d_name);
- if (!res)
+ if (!res) {
new_dentry->d_fsdata = old_dentry->d_fsdata;
+
+ res = hfsplus_cat_write_inode(old_dir);
+ if (!res)
+ res = hfsplus_cat_write_inode(new_dir);
+ }
return res;
}

--
2.51.0