In the following scenario xfs_bulkstat() returns incorrect stale inode
state:
1. File_A is created and its inode synced to disk. 2. File_A is unlinked
and doesn't exist anymore. 3. Filesystem sync is invoked. 4. File_B is
created. File_B happens to reclaim File_A's inode. 5. xfs_bulkstat() is
called and detects File_B but reports the
incorrect File_A inode state.
Explanation for the incorrect inode state is that inodes are not
immediately synced on file create for performance reasons. This leaves the
on-disk inode buffer uninitialized (or with old state from a previous
generation inode) and this is what xfs_bulkstat() would report.
The patch marks the on-disk inode buffer "dirty" on unlink. When the inode
is reclaimed (by a new file create), xfs_bulkstat() would filter this
inode by the "dirty" mark. Once the inode is flushed to disk, the on-disk
buffer "dirty" mark is automatically removed and a following
xfs_bulkstat() would return the correct inode state.
Marking the on-disk inode buffer "dirty" on unlink is achieved by setting
the on-disk di_nlink field to 0. Note that the in-core di_nlink has
already been set to 0 and a corresponding transaction logged by
xfs_droplink(). This is an exception from the rule that any on-disk inode
buffer changes has to be followed by a disk write (inode flush).
Synchronizing the in-core to on-disk di_nlink values in advance (before
the actual inode flush to disk) should be fine in this case because the
inode is already unlinked and it would never change its di_nlink again for
this inode generation.
SGI-PV: 970842
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29757a
Signed-off-by: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Biggest bit is duplicating the dinode structure so we have one annotated for
native endianess and one for disk endianess. The other significant change
is that xfs_xlate_dinode_core is split into one helper per direction to
allow for proper annotations, everything else is trivial.
As a sidenode splitting out the incore dinode means we can move it into
xfs_inode.h in a later patch and severely improving on the include hell in
xfs.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29476a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
* 32bit struct xfs_fsop_bulkreq has different size and layout of
members, no matter the alignment. Move the code out of the #else
branch (why was it there in the first place?). Define _32 variants of
the ioctl constants.
* 32bit struct xfs_bstat is different because of time_t and on
i386 because of different padding. Make xfs_bulkstat_one() accept a
custom "output formatter" in the private_data argument which takes care
of the xfs_bulkstat_one_compat() that takes care of the different
layout in the compat case.
* i386 struct xfs_inogrp has different padding.
Add a similar "output formatter" mecanism to xfs_inumbers().
SGI-PV: 967354
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29102a
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
The previous attempts to fix the linux inode use-after-free in xfs_iunpin
simply made the problem harder to hit. We actually need complete exclusion
between xfs_reclaim and xfs_iunpin, as well as ensuring that the i_flags
are consistent during both of these functions. Introduce a new spinlock
for exclusion and the i_flags, and fix up xfs_iunpin to use igrab before
marking the inode dirty.
SGI-PV: 952967
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26964a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
list, to increase our potential readahead window and in turn improve
bulkstat performance.
SGI-PV: 944409
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26607a
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
batches of inode cluster buffers at once, before any blocking reads are
issued.
SGI-PV: 944409
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26606a
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
extract inline attributes out of the bulkstat buffer (for that case),
rather than using an (extremely expensive for large icount filesystems)
iget for fetching attrs.
SGI-PV: 944409
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26602a
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
updates and only sync back to the xfs inode when nessecary
SGI-PV: 946679
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:203362a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
