Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix xfs_ifree() error handling to not leak perag ref

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 09:34:28AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> For some reason commit 9a5280b312e2e ("xfs: reorder iunlink remove
> operation in xfs_ifree") replaced a jump to the exit path in the
> event of an xfs_difree() error with a direct return, which skips

Reason: the patchset that the fix was promoted from had moved all
the pag handling out of xfs_ifree to the caller, so direct return
was, in fact, the correct behaviour in the code it originated from.

The patch applied to upstream with no errors or fuzz, and I had
completely forgotten that somewhere in the ~50 patches in the stack
before that fix had completely reworked unlink pag handling...

How did you find this? I haven't noticed any specific increase in
unmount perag accounting leaks as a result of this, so I'm curious
as to how you noticed it and isolated it to this specific bug.

> Restore the original code to drop the reference on error.
> 
> Fixes: 9a5280b312e2e ("xfs: reorder iunlink remove operation in xfs_ifree")
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> index b2879870a17e..52d6f2c7d58b 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> @@ -2622,7 +2622,7 @@ xfs_ifree(
>  	 */
>  	error = xfs_difree(tp, pag, ip->i_ino, &xic);
>  	if (error)
> -		return error;
> +		goto out;

Looks good,

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

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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com