On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 07:05:56PM -0700, Allison Collins wrote: > Delayed operations cannot return error codes. So we must check for these conditions > first before starting set or remove operations > > Signed-off-by: Allison Collins <allison.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c > index 2255060..a2f812f 100644 > --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c > +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c > @@ -437,6 +437,14 @@ xfs_attr_set( > goto out_trans_cancel; > > xfs_trans_ijoin(args.trans, dp, 0); > + > + error = xfs_has_attr(&args); > + if (error == -EEXIST && (name->type & ATTR_CREATE)) > + goto out_trans_cancel; > + > + if (error == -ENOATTR && (name->type & ATTR_REPLACE)) > + goto out_trans_cancel; > + So xfs_has_attr() calls the format-specific variant for the attr fork. If it's node format, xfs_attr_node_hasname() allocs a state and only frees it if the lookup happens to fail. That looks like a potential memory leak... Perhaps that helper should free the state in any case the caller doesn't ask for a pointer? Brian > error = xfs_attr_set_args(&args); > if (error) > goto out_trans_cancel; > @@ -525,6 +533,10 @@ xfs_attr_remove( > */ > xfs_trans_ijoin(args.trans, dp, 0); > > + error = xfs_has_attr(&args); > + if (error != -EEXIST) > + goto out; > + > error = xfs_attr_remove_args(&args); > if (error) > goto out; > -- > 2.7.4 >