This is a bug fix for meta-data corruption problem during garbage
collection.
I found stale block data on gc-inodes infrequently causes incorrect
relocation of on-disk block and leads to file system corruption.
The following patch will fix it.
I will send it to upstream and stable trees after some tests.
Ryusuke Konishi
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From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nilfs2: ensure proper cache clearing for gc-inodes
A gc-inode is a pseudo inode used to buffer the blocks to be moved by
garbage collection.
Block caches of gc-inodes must be cleared every time a garbage
collection function (nilfs_clean_segments) completes. Otherwise,
stale blocks buffered in the caches may be wrongly reused in
successive calls of the GC function.
For user files, this is not a problem because their gc-inodes are
distinguished by a checkpoint number as well as an inode number. They
never buffer different blocks if either an inode number, a checkpoint
number, or a block offset differs.
However, gc-inodes of sufile, cpfile and DAT file can store different
data for the same block offset. Thus, the nilfs_clean_segments
function can move incorrect block for these meta-data files if an old
block is cached. I found this is really causing meta-data corruption
in nilfs.
This fixes the issue by ensuring cache clear of gc-inodes and resolves
reported GC problems including checkpoint file corruption, b-tree
corruption, and the following warning during GC.
nilfs_palloc_freev: entry number 307234 already freed.
...
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c | 2 ++
fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c b/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
index 08a07a2..57ceaf3 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ void nilfs_remove_all_gcinodes(struct the_nilfs *nilfs)
while (!list_empty(head)) {
ii = list_first_entry(head, struct nilfs_inode_info, i_dirty);
list_del_init(&ii->i_dirty);
+ truncate_inode_pages(&ii->vfs_inode.i_data, 0);
+ nilfs_btnode_cache_clear(&ii->i_btnode_cache);
iput(&ii->vfs_inode);
}
}
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
index 0e72ad6..88e11fb 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/segment.c
@@ -2309,6 +2309,8 @@ nilfs_remove_written_gcinodes(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, struct list_head *head)
if (!test_bit(NILFS_I_UPDATED, &ii->i_state))
continue;
list_del_init(&ii->i_dirty);
+ truncate_inode_pages(&ii->vfs_inode.i_data, 0);
+ nilfs_btnode_cache_clear(&ii->i_btnode_cache);
iput(&ii->vfs_inode);
}
}
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1.7.9.3
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