From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> As detailed in the previous commit, empty xattr leaf blocks can be the benign byproduct of the system going down during the multi-step process of adding a large xattr to a file that has no xattrs. If we find one at attr fork offset 0, we should clear it, but this isn't a corruption. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- repair/attr_repair.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/repair/attr_repair.c b/repair/attr_repair.c index 2055d96e..c3a6d502 100644 --- a/repair/attr_repair.c +++ b/repair/attr_repair.c @@ -579,6 +579,26 @@ process_leaf_attr_block( firstb = mp->m_sb.sb_blocksize; stop = xfs_attr3_leaf_hdr_size(leaf); + /* + * Empty leaf blocks at offset zero can occur as a race between + * setxattr and the system going down, so we only take action if we're + * running in modify mode. See xfs_attr3_leaf_verify for details of + * how we've screwed this up many times. + */ + if (!leafhdr.count && da_bno == 0) { + if (no_modify) { + do_log( + _("would clear empty leaf attr block 0, inode %" PRIu64 "\n"), + ino); + return 0; + } + + do_warn( + _("will clear empty leaf attr block 0, inode %" PRIu64 "\n"), + ino); + return 1; + } + /* does the count look sorta valid? */ if (!leafhdr.count || leafhdr.count * sizeof(xfs_attr_leaf_entry_t) + stop >