Re: [PATCH] xfs: symlinks can be zero length during log recovery

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On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:02:11PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/14/18 8:57 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On 6/14/18 8:43 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> A log recovery failure has been reproduced where a symlink inode has
> >> a zero length in extent form. It was caused by a shutdown during a
> >> combined fstress+fsmark workload.
> >>
> >> To fix it, we have to allow zero length symlink inodes through
> >> xfs_dinode_verify() during log recovery. We already specifically
> >> check and allow this case in the shortform symlink fork verifier,
> >> but in this case we don't get that far, and the inode is not in
> >> shortform format.
> >>
> >> Update the dinode verifier to handle this case, and change the
> >> symlink fork verifier to only allow this case to exist during log
> >> recovery.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Looks reasonable.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Also probably worth tagging with
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200063

Why? I didn't know that existed until you pointed it out, and I
still haven't looked at it as I write this....

Cheers,

Dave.
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