[PATCH 10/9] xfs: fix dir3 freespace block corruption
Ben Myers
bpm at sgi.com
Fri May 31 16:54:10 CDT 2013
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:15:53PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 06:37:17PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> >
> > When the directory freespace index grows to a second block (2017
> > 4k data blocks in the directory), the initialisation of the second
> > new block header goes wrong. The write verifier fires a corruption
> > error indicating that the block number in the header is zero. This
> > was being tripped by xfs/110.
> >
> > The problem is that the initialisation of the new block is done just
> > fine in xfs_dir3_free_get_buf(), but the caller then users a dirv2
> > structure to zero on-disk header fields that xfs_dir3_free_get_buf()
> > has already zeroed. These lined up with the block number in the dir
> > v3 header format.
> >
> > While looking at this, I noticed that the struct xfs_dir3_free_hdr()
> > had 4 bytes of padding in it that wasn't defined as padding or being
> > zeroed by the initialisation. Add a pad field declaration and fully
> > zero the on disk and in-core headers in xfs_dir3_free_get_buf() so
> > that this is never an issue in the future. Note that this doesn't
> > change the on-disk layout, just makes the 32 bits of padding in the
> > layout explicit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_format.h | 1 +
> > fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_node.c | 13 ++++++-------
> > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_format.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_format.h
> > index a3b1bd8..995f1f5 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_format.h
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_format.h
> > @@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ struct xfs_dir3_free_hdr {
> > __be32 firstdb; /* db of first entry */
> > __be32 nvalid; /* count of valid entries */
> > __be32 nused; /* count of used entries */
> > + __be32 pad; /* 64 bit alignment. */
>
> Yeah, my count also puts nused short of 64 bit alignment. Looks ok.
>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>
Applied this.
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