Re: [PATCH] xfs: check sb_meta_uuid for dabuf buffer recovery

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 06:21:16PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 12/15/21 6:17 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Got a report that a repeated crash test of a container host would
> > eventually fail with a log recovery error preventing the system from
> > mounting the root filesystem. It manifested as a directory leaf node
> > corruption on writeback like so:
> > 
> >   XFS (loop0): Mounting V5 Filesystem
> >   XFS (loop0): Starting recovery (logdev: internal)
> >   XFS (loop0): Metadata corruption detected at xfs_dir3_leaf_check_int+0x99/0xf0, xfs_dir3_leaf1 block 0x12faa158
> >   XFS (loop0): Unmount and run xfs_repair
> >   XFS (loop0): First 128 bytes of corrupted metadata buffer:
> >   00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3d f1 00 00 e1 9e d5 8b  ........=.......
> >   00000010: 00 00 00 00 12 fa a1 58 00 00 00 29 00 00 1b cc  .......X...)....
> >   00000020: 91 06 78 ff f7 7e 4a 7d 8d 53 86 f2 ac 47 a8 23  ..x..~J}.S...G.#
> >   00000030: 00 00 00 00 17 e0 00 80 00 43 00 00 00 00 00 00  .........C......
> >   00000040: 00 00 00 2e 00 00 00 08 00 00 17 2e 00 00 00 0a  ................
> >   00000050: 02 35 79 83 00 00 00 30 04 d3 b4 80 00 00 01 50  .5y....0.......P
> >   00000060: 08 40 95 7f 00 00 02 98 08 41 fe b7 00 00 02 d4  .@.......A......
> >   00000070: 0d 62 ef a7 00 00 01 f2 14 50 21 41 00 00 00 0c  .b.......P!A....
> >   XFS (loop0): Corruption of in-memory data (0x8) detected at xfs_do_force_shutdown+0x1a/0x20 (fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c:1514).  Shutting down.
> >   XFS (loop0): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)
> >   XFS (loop0): log mount/recovery failed: error -117
> >   XFS (loop0): log mount failed
> > 
> > Tracing indicated that we were recovering changes from a transaction
> > at LSN 0x29/0x1c16 into a buffer that had an LSN of 0x29/0x1d57.
> > That is, log recovery was overwriting a buffer with newer changes on
> > disk than was in the transaction. Tracing indicated that we were
> > hitting the "recovery immediately" case in
> > xfs_buf_log_recovery_lsn(), and hence it was ignoring the LSN in the
> > buffer.
> > 
> > The code was extracting the LSN correctly, then ignoring it because
> > the UUID in the buffer did not match the superblock UUID. The
> > problem arises because the UUID check uses the wrong UUID - it
> > should be checking the sb_meta_uuid, not sb_uuid. This filesystem
> > has sb_uuid != sb_meta_uuid (which is fine), and the buffer has the
> > correct matching sb_meta_uuid in it, it's just the code checked it
> > against the wrong superblock uuid.
> > 
> > The is no corruption in the filesystem, and failing to recover the
> > buffer due to a write verifier failure means the recovery bug did
> > not propagate the corruption to disk. Hence there is no corruption
> > before or after this bug has manifested, the impact is limited
> > simply to an unmountable filesystem....
> > 
> > This was missed back in 2015 during an audit of incorrect sb_uuid
> > usage that resulted in commit fcfbe2c4ef42 ("xfs: log recovery needs
> > to validate against sb_meta_uuid") that fixed the magic32 buffers to
> > validate against sb_meta_uuid instead of sb_uuid. It missed the
> > magicda buffers....
> > 
> > Fixes: ce748eaa65f2 ("xfs: create new metadata UUID field and incompat flag")
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Kind of amazing it took so long to turn up and get found, eh?

Especially considering that I use sb_uuid != sb_meta_uuid for all
the test device filesystems I run fstests on and have for the past 5
years. I think that means we *never* run log recovery tests on test
devices in fstests.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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