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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	list@jonas-server.de, David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>,
	Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>,
	Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: don't crash on unexpected holes in dir/attr btrees
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 02:06:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170620090607.GD15374@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <351d0c66-4969-7ce9-da9c-6d2901e1bdef@sandeen.net>

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 01:12:41PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 6/16/17 12:53 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > So I /think/ the xfs_attr_inactive crashes that both of you have been
> > seeing are a result of XFS assuming that there aren't ever any mapping
> > holes in the extended attribute fork and crashing when it tries to
> > grab a buffer for the hole and fails to notice that holes don't have
> > buffers.  This lightly tested patch gets rid of /that/ problem.
> > 
> > So, if you're willing, can you try this out and see if the crashes go
> > away?  Granted, this might only enable us to lurch on whatever's next...
> 
> If it's unexpected, does that mean something else is wrong?  If so,
> should there be a warning or a corrupted state, or anything like that?

xfs_attr_rmtval_remove certainly removes blocks from the attr mapping,
but those should be expected..

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-20  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-16 17:53 [PATCH] xfs: don't crash on unexpected holes in dir/attr btrees Darrick J. Wong
2017-06-16 18:12 ` Eric Sandeen
2017-06-20  9:06   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-06-26 16:04     ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-06-20 13:01 ` David Shaw
2017-06-20 16:20   ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-07-06 21:59     ` David Shaw

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