From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:34938 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751018AbdBBH5Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2017 02:57:16 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: [PATCH 16/19] xfs: remove racy hasattr check from attr ops Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 08:56:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1486022171-8076-17-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <1486022171-8076-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> References: <1486022171-8076-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Brian Foster , "Darrick J. Wong" From: Brian Foster commit 5a93790d4e2df73e30c965ec6e49be82fc3ccfce upstream. xfs_attr_[get|remove]() have unlocked attribute fork checks to optimize away a lock cycle in cases where the fork does not exist or is otherwise empty. This check is not safe, however, because an attribute fork short form to extent format conversion includes a transient state that causes the xfs_inode_hasattr() check to fail. Specifically, xfs_attr_shortform_to_leaf() creates an empty extent format attribute fork and then adds the existing shortform attributes to it. This means that lookup of an existing xattr can spuriously return -ENOATTR when racing against a setxattr that causes the associated format conversion. This was originally reproduced by an untar on a particularly configured glusterfs volume, but can also be reproduced on demand with properly crafted xattr requests. The format conversion occurs under the exclusive ilock. xfs_attr_get() and xfs_attr_remove() already have the proper locking and checks further down in the functions to handle this situation correctly. Drop the unlocked checks to avoid the spurious failure and rely on the existing logic. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c index af1ecb1..6622d46 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c @@ -131,9 +131,6 @@ xfs_attr_get( if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount)) return -EIO; - if (!xfs_inode_hasattr(ip)) - return -ENOATTR; - error = xfs_attr_args_init(&args, ip, name, flags); if (error) return error; @@ -392,9 +389,6 @@ xfs_attr_remove( if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(dp->i_mount)) return -EIO; - if (!xfs_inode_hasattr(dp)) - return -ENOATTR; - error = xfs_attr_args_init(&args, dp, name, flags); if (error) return error; -- 2.1.4