Re: [PATCH] xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 10:56:27AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 05:09:20PM +0800, cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 03:43:52PM +0800, cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn wrote:
> > >> From: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn>
> > >> An dir nlinks overflow which down form 0 to 0xffffffff, cause the
> > >> directory to become unusable until the next xfs_repair run.
> > > Hmmm.  How does this ever happen?
> > > IMO, if it does happen, we need to fix whatever bug that causes it
> > > to happen, not issue a warning and do nothing about the fact we
> > > just hit a corrupt inode state...
> > Yes, I'm very agree with your opinion. But I don't know how it happened,
> > and how to reproduce it.
> 
> Wait, is this the result of a customer problem?  Or static analysis?
> 
> > >> Introduce protection for drop nlink to reduce the impact of this.
> > >> And produce a warning for directory nlink error during remove.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@zte.com.cn>
> > >> ---
> > >>  fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
> > >>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > >> index 9e62cc5..536dbe4 100644
> > >> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > >> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > >> @@ -919,6 +919,15 @@ STATIC int xfs_iunlink_remove(struct xfs_trans *tp, struct xfs_perag *pag,
> 
> I'm not sure why your diff program thinks this hunk is from
> xfs_iunlink_remove, seeing as the line numbers of the chunk point to
> xfs_droplink.  Maybe that's what's going on in this part of the thread?

Yes.

I don't expect patches to be mangled like this - I generally
take the hunk prefix to indicate what code is being modified when
reading patches, not expecting that the hunk is modifying code over
a thousand lines prior to the function in the prefix...

So, yeah, something went very wrong with the generation of this
patch...

-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com