Re: [PATCH] xfs: handle error if xfs_btree_get_bufs fails

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 04:00:26PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Jason reported that a corrupted filesystem failed to replay
> the log with a metadata block out of bounds warning:
> 
> XFS (dm-2): _xfs_buf_find: Block out of range: block 0x80270fff8, EOFS 0x9c40000 
> 
> _xfs_buf_find() and xfs_btree_get_bufs() return NULL if
> that happens, and then when xfs_alloc_fix_freelist() calls
> xfs_trans_binval() on that NULL bp, we oops with:
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000f8
> 
> We don't handle _xfs_buf_find errors very well, every
> caller higher up the stack gets to guess at why it failed.
> But we should at least handle it somehow.  I chose EIO here
> for lack of a better idea.  :)
> 
> Reported-by: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> index effb64c..d125135 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_alloc.c
> @@ -1640,6 +1640,10 @@ STATIC int xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_small(xfs_alloc_arg_t *,
>  
>  				bp = xfs_btree_get_bufs(args->mp, args->tp,
>  					args->agno, fbno, 0);
> +				if (!bp) {
> +					error = -EIO;
> +					goto error0;
> +				}

If this happens, it's because the filesystem is corrupted, not
because we had an IO error. -EFSCORRUPTED is more appropriate here,
as the comment in _xfs_buf_find() says...

Cheers,

Dave.
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