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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: reset child dir '..' entry when unlinking child
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 20:02:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210703030233.GD24788@locust> (raw)

From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

While running xfs/168, I noticed a second source of post-shrink
corruption errors causing shutdowns.

Let's say that directory B has a low inode number and is a child of
directory A, which has a high number.  If B is empty but open, and
unlinked from A, B's dotdot link continues to point to A.  If A is then
unlinked and the filesystem shrunk so that A is no longer a valid inode,
a subsequent AIL push of B will trip the inode verifiers because the
dotdot entry points outside of the filesystem.

To avoid this problem, reset B's dotdot entry to the root directory when
unlinking directories, since the root directory cannot be removed.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 52be5c6d0b3b..03e25246e936 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2817,6 +2817,19 @@ xfs_remove(
 		error = xfs_droplink(tp, ip);
 		if (error)
 			goto out_trans_cancel;
+
+		/*
+		 * Point the unlinked child directory's ".." entry to the root
+		 * directory to eliminate back-references to inodes that may
+		 * get freed before the child directory is closed.  If the fs
+		 * gets shrunk, this can lead to dirent inode validation errors.
+		 */
+		if (dp->i_ino != tp->t_mountp->m_sb.sb_rootino) {
+			error = xfs_dir_replace(tp, ip, &xfs_name_dotdot,
+					tp->t_mountp->m_sb.sb_rootino, 0);
+			if (error)
+				return error;
+		}
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * When removing a non-directory we need to log the parent

             reply	other threads:[~2021-07-03  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-03  3:02 Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2021-07-05  8:20 ` [PATCH] xfs: reset child dir '..' entry when unlinking child Gao Xiang
2021-07-05  8:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-06 18:35   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-05 22:09 ` Dave Chinner
2021-07-05 23:20   ` Gao Xiang
2021-07-06 21:49     ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-07-06 23:07       ` Dave Chinner
2021-07-07  1:36         ` Gao Xiang

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