linux/fs/ext4
Tahsin Erdogan 407cd7fb83 ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks
ext4_inode_info->i_data is the storage area for 4 types of data:

  a) Extents data
  b) Inline data
  c) Block map
  d) Fast symlink data (symlink length < 60)

Extents data case is positively identified by EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS flag.
Inline data case is also obvious because of EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA
flag.

Distinguishing c) and d) however requires additional logic. This
currently relies on i_blocks count. After subtracting external xattr
block from i_blocks, if it is greater than 0 then we know that some
data blocks exist, so there must be a block map.

This logic got broken after ea_inode feature was added. That feature
charges the data blocks of external xattr inodes to the referencing
inode and so adds them to the i_blocks. To fix this, we could subtract
ea_inode blocks by iterating through all xattr entries and then check
whether remaining i_blocks count is zero. Besides being complicated,
this won't change the fact that the current way of distinguishing
between c) and d) is fragile.

The alternative solution is to test whether i_size is less than 60 to
determine fast symlink case. ext4_symlink() uses the same test to decide
whether to store the symlink in i_data. There is one caveat to address
before this can work though.

If an inode's i_nlink is zero during eviction, its i_size is set to
zero and its data is truncated. If system crashes before inode is removed
from the orphan list, next boot orphan cleanup may find the inode with
zero i_size. So, a symlink that had its data stored in a block may now
appear to be a fast symlink. The solution used in this patch is to treat
i_size = 0 as a non-fast symlink case. A zero sized symlink is not legal
so the only time this can happen is the mentioned scenario. This is also
logically correct because a i_size = 0 symlink has no data stored in
i_data.

Suggested-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
2017-07-04 00:11:21 -04:00
..
acl.c ext4: xattr inode deduplication 2017-06-22 11:44:55 -04:00
acl.h ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure 2014-01-25 23:58:19 -05:00
balloc.c The major change this cycle is deleting ext4's copy of the file system 2016-07-26 18:35:55 -07:00
bitmap.c ext4: remove unused header files 2015-04-02 23:47:42 -04:00
block_validity.c ext4: add missing KERN_CONT to a few more debugging uses 2016-10-15 09:57:31 -04:00
dir.c ext4: remove unused variable 2016-09-30 02:14:56 -04:00
ext4_extents.h ext4: fix misspellings in comments. 2016-03-09 23:49:05 -05:00
ext4_jbd2.c ext4: add shutdown bit and check for it 2017-02-05 01:28:48 -05:00
ext4_jbd2.h ext4: improve journal credit handling in set xattr paths 2017-06-21 22:28:40 -04:00
ext4.h ext4: send parallel discards on commit completions 2017-06-22 23:54:33 -04:00
extents_status.c scripts/spelling.txt: add "comsume(r)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
extents_status.h ext4: move procfs registration code to fs/ext4/sysfs.c 2015-09-23 12:46:17 -04:00
extents.c ext4: call journal revoke when freeing ea_inode blocks 2017-06-21 21:36:51 -04:00
file.c ext4: don't bother checking for encryption key in ->mmap() 2017-06-23 19:41:38 -04:00
fsmap.c ext4: fix off-by-one fsmap error on 1k block filesystems 2017-06-23 00:58:57 -04:00
fsmap.h ext4: support GETFSMAP ioctls 2017-04-30 00:36:53 -04:00
fsync.c ext4: add shutdown bit and check for it 2017-02-05 01:28:48 -05:00
hash.c ext4: move halfmd4 into hash.c directly 2017-02-02 11:52:14 -05:00
ialloc.c ext4: do not set posix acls on xattr inodes 2017-06-21 21:21:39 -04:00
indirect.c ext4: call journal revoke when freeing ea_inode blocks 2017-06-21 21:36:51 -04:00
inline.c ext4: xattr-in-inode support 2017-06-21 21:10:32 -04:00
inode.c ext4: change fast symlink test to not rely on i_blocks 2017-07-04 00:11:21 -04:00
ioctl.c quota: add get_inode_usage callback to transfer multi-inode charges 2017-06-22 11:46:48 -04:00
Kconfig dax: fix build warnings with FS_DAX and !FS_IOMAP 2017-01-24 16:26:14 -08:00
Makefile ext4: support GETFSMAP ioctls 2017-04-30 00:36:53 -04:00
mballoc.c ext4: send parallel discards on commit completions 2017-06-22 23:54:33 -04:00
mballoc.h ext4: send parallel discards on commit completions 2017-06-22 23:54:33 -04:00
migrate.c ext4: do not set posix acls on xattr inodes 2017-06-21 21:21:39 -04:00
mmp.c block,fs: use REQ_* flags directly 2016-11-01 09:43:26 -06:00
move_extent.c ext4: add ext4_is_quota_file() 2017-06-22 11:31:25 -04:00
namei.c ext4: return EFSBADCRC if a bad checksum error is found in ext4_find_entry() 2017-06-23 00:47:05 -04:00
page-io.c ext4: replace BUG_ON with WARN_ONCE in ext4_end_bio() 2017-04-30 20:08:05 -04:00
readpage.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-07-26 19:55:54 -07:00
resize.c ext4: rename s_resize_flags to s_ext4_flags 2017-02-05 01:27:48 -05:00
super.c ext4: forbid encrypting root directory 2017-06-23 00:10:36 -04:00
symlink.c ext4: Add statx support 2017-04-03 01:05:58 -04:00
sysfs.c ext4: check return value of kstrtoull correctly in reserved_clusters_store 2017-06-23 01:08:22 -04:00
truncate.h ext4: fix races between page faults and hole punching 2015-12-07 14:28:03 -05:00
xattr_security.c switch xattr_handler->set() to passing dentry and inode separately 2016-05-27 15:39:43 -04:00
xattr_trusted.c switch xattr_handler->set() to passing dentry and inode separately 2016-05-27 15:39:43 -04:00
xattr_user.c switch xattr_handler->set() to passing dentry and inode separately 2016-05-27 15:39:43 -04:00
xattr.c ext4: add nombcache mount option 2017-06-22 11:55:14 -04:00
xattr.h quota: add get_inode_usage callback to transfer multi-inode charges 2017-06-22 11:46:48 -04:00