mainlining shenanigans
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Currently ovl_get_inode() initializes OVL_UPPERDATA flag and for that it has to call ovl_check_metacopy_xattr() and check if metacopy xattr is present or not. yangerkun reported sometimes underlying filesystem might return -EIO and in that case error handling path does not cleanup properly leading to various warnings. Run generic/461 with ext4 upper/lower layer sometimes may trigger the bug as below(linux 4.19): [ 551.001349] overlayfs: failed to get metacopy (-5) [ 551.003464] overlayfs: failed to get inode (-5) [ 551.004243] overlayfs: cleanup of 'd44/fd51' failed (-5) [ 551.004941] overlayfs: failed to get origin (-5) [ 551.005199] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 551.006697] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 24674 at fs/inode.c:1528 iput+0x33b/0x400 ... [ 551.027219] Call Trace: [ 551.027623] ovl_create_object+0x13f/0x170 [ 551.028268] ovl_create+0x27/0x30 [ 551.028799] path_openat+0x1a35/0x1ea0 [ 551.029377] do_filp_open+0xad/0x160 [ 551.029944] ? vfs_writev+0xe9/0x170 [ 551.030499] ? page_counter_try_charge+0x77/0x120 [ 551.031245] ? __alloc_fd+0x160/0x2a0 [ 551.031832] ? do_sys_open+0x189/0x340 [ 551.032417] ? get_unused_fd_flags+0x34/0x40 [ 551.033081] do_sys_open+0x189/0x340 [ 551.033632] __x64_sys_creat+0x24/0x30 [ 551.034219] do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x430 [ 551.034800] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 One solution is to improve error handling and call iget_failed() if error is encountered. Amir thinks that this path is little intricate and there is not real need to check and initialize OVL_UPPERDATA in ovl_get_inode(). Instead caller of ovl_get_inode() can initialize this state. And this will avoid double checking of metacopy xattr lookup in ovl_lookup() and ovl_get_inode(). OVL_UPPERDATA is inode flag. So I was little concerned that initializing it outside ovl_get_inode() might have some races. But this is one way transition. That is once a file has been fully copied up, it can't go back to metacopy file again. And that seems to help avoid races. So as of now I can't see any races w.r.t OVL_UPPERDATA being set wrongly. So move settingof OVL_UPPERDATA inside the callers of ovl_get_inode(). ovl_obtain_alias() already does it. So only two callers now left are ovl_lookup() and ovl_instantiate(). Reported-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> |
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