From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Source kernel commit: c400ee3ed1b13d45adde68e12254dc6ab6977b59
It's entirely possible for userspace to ask for an xattr which
does not exist.
Normally, there is no problem whatsoever when we ask for such
a thing, but when we look at an obfuscated metadump image
on a debug kernel with selinux, we trip over this ASSERT in
xfs_da3_path_shift():
*result = -ENOENT; /* we're out of our tree */
ASSERT(args->op_flags & XFS_DA_OP_OKNOENT);
It (more or less) only shows up in the above scenario, because
xfs_metadump obfuscates attr names, but chooses names which
keep the same hash value - and xfs_da3_node_lookup_int does:
if (((retval == -ENOENT) || (retval == -ENOATTR)) &&
(blk->hashval == args->hashval)) {
error = xfs_da3_path_shift(state, &state->path, 1, 1,
&retval);
IOWS, we only get down to the xfs_da3_path_shift() ASSERT
if we are looking for an xattr which doesn't exist, but we
find xattrs on disk which have the same hash, and so might be
a hash collision, so we try the path shift. When *that*
fails to find what we're looking for, we hit the assert about
XFS_DA_OP_OKNOENT.
Simply setting XFS_DA_OP_OKNOENT in xfs_attr_get solves this
rather corner-case problem with no ill side effects. It's
fine for an attr name lookup to fail.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
index c7f0afa..60513f9 100644
--- a/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
+++ b/libxfs/xfs_attr.c
@@ -135,6 +135,8 @@ xfs_attr_get(
args.value = value;
args.valuelen = *valuelenp;
+ /* Entirely possible to look up a name which doesn't exist */
+ args.op_flags = XFS_DA_OP_OKNOENT;
lock_mode = xfs_ilock_attr_map_shared(ip);
if (!xfs_inode_hasattr(ip))
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