mainlining shenanigans
b5e4ff9d46
Recently fsstress (from fstests) sporadically started to trigger an
infinite loop during fsync operations. This turned out to be because
support for the rename exchange and whiteout operations was added to
fsstress in fstests. These operations, unlike any others in fsstress,
cause file names to be reused, whence triggering this issue. However
it's not necessary to use rename exchange and rename whiteout operations
trigger this issue, simple rename operations and file creations are
enough to trigger the issue.
The issue boils down to when we are logging inodes that conflict (that
had the name of any inode we need to log during the fsync operation), we
keep logging them even if they were already logged before, and after
that we check if there's any other inode that conflicts with them and
then add it again to the list of inodes to log. Skipping already logged
inodes fixes the issue.
Consider the following example:
$ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdb
$ mount /dev/sdb /mnt
$ mkdir /mnt/testdir # inode 257
$ touch /mnt/testdir/zz # inode 258
$ ln /mnt/testdir/zz /mnt/testdir/zz_link
$ touch /mnt/testdir/a # inode 259
$ sync
# The following 3 renames achieve the same result as a rename exchange
# operation (<rename_exchange> /mnt/testdir/zz_link to /mnt/testdir/a).
$ mv /mnt/testdir/a /mnt/testdir/a/tmp
$ mv /mnt/testdir/zz_link /mnt/testdir/a
$ mv /mnt/testdir/a/tmp /mnt/testdir/zz_link
# The following rename and file creation give the same result as a
# rename whiteout operation (<rename_whiteout> zz to a2).
$ mv /mnt/testdir/zz /mnt/testdir/a2
$ touch /mnt/testdir/zz # inode 260
$ xfs_io -c fsync /mnt/testdir/zz
--> results in the infinite loop
The following steps happen:
1) When logging inode 260, we find that its reference named "zz" was
used by inode 258 in the previous transaction (through the commit
root), so inode 258 is added to the list of conflicting indoes that
need to be logged;
2) After logging inode 258, we find that its reference named "a" was
used by inode 259 in the previous transaction, and therefore we add
inode 259 to the list of conflicting inodes to be logged;
3) After logging inode 259, we find that its reference named "zz_link"
was used by inode 258 in the previous transaction - we add inode 258
to the list of conflicting inodes to log, again - we had already
logged it before at step 3. After logging it again, we find again
that inode 259 conflicts with him, and we add again 259 to the list,
etc - we end up repeating all the previous steps.
So fix this by skipping logging of conflicting inodes that were already
logged.
Fixes:
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