Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite loop

[Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>]

On 2024/6/28 14:29, libaokun@huaweicloud.com wrote:
> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
> 
> In cachefiles_check_volume_xattr(), the error returned by vfs_getxattr()
> is not passed to ret, so it ends up returning -ESTALE, which leads to an
> endless loop as follows:
> 
> cachefiles_acquire_volume
> retry:
>    ret = cachefiles_check_volume_xattr
>      ret = -ESTALE
>      xlen = vfs_getxattr // return -EIO
>      // The ret is not updated when xlen < 0, so -ESTALE is returned.
>      return ret
>    // Supposed to jump out of the loop at this judgement.
>    if (ret != -ESTALE)
>        goto error_dir;
>    cachefiles_bury_object
>      //  EIO causes rename failure
>    goto retry;
> 
> Hence propagate the error returned by vfs_getxattr() to avoid the above
> issue. Do the same in cachefiles_check_auxdata().
> 
> Fixes: 32e150037dce ("fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data")
> Fixes: 72b957856b0c ("cachefiles: Implement metadata/coherency data storage in xattrs")
> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>

It looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang