On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:35:08PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 09:50:20PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 12:08:19PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote: > > > Page writeback indirectly handles shared extents via the existence > > > of overlapping COW fork blocks. If COW fork blocks exist, writeback > > > always performs the associated copy-on-write regardless if the > > > underlying blocks are actually shared. If the blocks are shared, > > > then overlapping COW fork blocks must always exist. > > > > > > fstests shared/010 reproduces a case where a buffered write occurs > > > over a shared block without performing the requisite COW fork > > > reservation. This ultimately causes writeback to the shared extent > > > and data corruption that is detected across md5 checks of the > > > filesystem across a mount cycle. > > > > > > The problem occurs when a buffered write lands over a shared extent > > > that crosses an extent size hint boundary and that also happens to > > > have a partial COW reservation that doesn't cover the start and end > > > blocks of the data fork extent. > > > > > > For example, a buffered write occurs across the file offset (in FSB > > > units) range of [29, 57]. A shared extent exists at blocks [29, 35] > > > and COW reservation already exists at blocks [32, 34]. After > > > accommodating a COW extent size hint of 32 blocks and the existing > > > reservation at offset 32, xfs_reflink_reserve_cow() allocates 32 > > > blocks of reservation at offset 0 and returns with COW reservation > > > across the range of [0, 34]. The associated data fork extent is > > > still [29, 35], however, which isn't fully covered by the COW > > > reservation. > > > > > > This leads to a buffered write at file offset 35 over a shared > > > extent without associated COW reservation. Writeback eventually > > > kicks in, performs an overwrite of the underlying shared block and > > > causes the associated data corruption. > > > > > > Update xfs_reflink_reserve_cow() to accommodate the fact that a > > > delalloc allocation request may not fully cover the extent in the > > > data fork. Trim the data fork extent appropriately, just as is done > > > for shared extent boundaries and/or existing COW reservations that > > > happen to overlap the start of the data fork extent. This prevents > > > shared/010 failures due to data corruption on reflink enabled > > > filesystems. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > > > > This is not fully tested yet beyond verification that it solves the > > > problem reproduced by shared/010. I'll be running more tests today, but > > > I'm sending sooner for review and testing due to the nature of the > > > problem and the fact that it's a fairly isolated change. I'll follow up > > > if I discover any resulting regressions.. > > > > Did you find any regressions? > > > > I ran this through my overnight tests and saw no adverse effects, though > > Dave was complaining yesterday about continuing generic/091 corruptions > > (which I didn't see with this patch applied...) > > I can say now that this patch hasn't caused any new corruptions. It > hasn't fixed any of the (many) corruptions that I'm hitting, either, > so from that perspective it's no better or worse than what we have > now :P > So were you reproducing the shared/010 corruption or no? I suppose it would be nice if this fixed some other problems, but it was only intended to fix the problem Zorro was reproducing with shared/010. Brian > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx