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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] xfs: strengthen btree pointer checks before use
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 07:58:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180604215833.GT10363@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <152812864651.2736.14013770828662833917.stgit@magnolia>

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:10:46AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> Instead of ASSERTing on null btree pointers in xfs_btree_ptr_to_daddr,
> use the new block number verifiers to ensure that the btree pointer
> doesn't point to any sensitive areas (AG headers, past-EOFS) and return
> -EFSCORRUPTED if this is the case.  Remove the ASSERT because on-disk
> corruptions shouldn't trigger ASSERTs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

I still get the feling we're going to have to validate ptrs before
we pull them from the tree, but this patch is fine.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-04 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-04 16:10 [PATCH v2 0/4] xfs: fix various checking problems Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: check directory bestfree information in the verifier Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04 21:56   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-04 16:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: introduce xfs_btree_debug_check_ptr Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04 21:56   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-04 16:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: don't assert when on-disk btree pointers are garbage Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04 21:57   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-04 16:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: strengthen btree pointer checks before use Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04 21:58   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2018-06-04 19:17 ` [PATCH 5/4] xfs: explicitly pass buffer size to xfs_corruption_error Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04 22:00   ` Dave Chinner
2018-06-04 19:17 ` [PATCH 6/4] xfs: don't assert on corrupted unlinked inode list Darrick J. Wong
2018-06-04 22:03   ` Dave Chinner

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