Re: [PATCH] [RFC] xfs: fix inode fork extent count overflow

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On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:20:05AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:21:07AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > And that's the behaviour I just saw in a nutshell. The on disk count
> > is correct, but once the tree is loaded into memory, it goes whacky.
> > Clearly there's something wrong with xfs_iext_count():
> > 
> > inline xfs_extnum_t xfs_iext_count(struct xfs_ifork *ifp)
> > {
> >         return ifp->if_bytes / sizeof(struct xfs_iext_rec);
> > }
> > 
> > Simple enough, but 134M extents is 2**27, and that's right about
> 
> On the plus side, 2^27 is way better than the last time anyone tried to
> create an egregious number of extents.

Well, we'd get to 2^26 (~65M extents) before memory allocation
stopped progress...

> > Current testing is at over 500M extents and still going:
> > 
> > fsxattr.nextents = 517310478
> > 
> > Reported-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks reasonable to me; did Zorro retest w/ this patch?

No idea, but I got to 1.3B extents before the VM ran out of RAM and
oom-killed itself to death - the extent list took up >47GB of the
48GB of RAM I gave the VM. At some point we are going to have to
think about demand paging extent lists....

> If so,
> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

-Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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