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

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On 12/12/16 4:14 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 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...

Ok, I thought I saw other places set EIO and ENOMEM, but it doesn't
matter to me ...  I'll resend w/ -EFSCORRUPTED.

Thanks,
-Eric

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 

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