From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> "KjellR" complained on IRC that an old V4 filesystem suddenly stopped mounting after upgrading from 6.9.11 to 6.10.3, with the following splat when trying to read the rt bitmap inode: 00000000: 49 4e 80 00 01 02 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 IN.............. 00000010: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 d2 a9 da 21 0f d6 30 ........C...!..0 00000030: 43 d2 a9 da 21 0f d6 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C...!..0........ 00000040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000050: 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000060: ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00000070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ As Dave Chinner points out, this is a V1 inode with both di_onlink and di_nlink set to 1 and di_flushiter == 0. In other words, this inode was formatted this way by mkfs and hasn't been touched since then. Back in the old days of xfsprogs 3.2.3, I observed that libxfs_ialloc would set di_nlink, but if the filesystem didn't have NLINK, it would then set di_version = 1. libxfs_iflush_int later sees the V1 inode and copies the value of di_nlink to di_onlink without zeroing di_onlink. Eventually this filesystem must have been upgraded to support NLINK because 6.10 doesn't support !NLINK filesystems, which is how we tripped over this old behavior. The filesystem doesn't have a realtime section, so that's why the rtbitmap inode has never been touched. Fix this by removing the di_onlink/di_nlink checking for all V1/V2 inodes because this is a muddy mess. The V3 inode handling code has always supported NLINK and written di_onlink==0 so keep that check. The removal of the V1 inode handling code when we dropped support for !NLINK obscured this old behavior. Reported-by: kjell.m.randa@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: 40cb8613d612 ("xfs: check unused nlink fields in the ondisk inode") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c index 513b50da6215..79babeac9d75 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c @@ -514,12 +514,18 @@ xfs_dinode_verify( return __this_address; } - if (dip->di_version > 1) { + /* + * Historical note: xfsprogs in the 3.2 era set up its incore inodes to + * have di_nlink track the link count, even if the actual filesystem + * only supported V1 inodes (i.e. di_onlink). When writing out the + * ondisk inode, it would set both the ondisk di_nlink and di_onlink to + * the the incore di_nlink value, which is why we cannot check for + * di_nlink==0 on a V1 inode. V2/3 inodes would get written out with + * di_onlink==0, so we can check that. + */ + if (dip->di_version >= 2) { if (dip->di_onlink) return __this_address; - } else { - if (dip->di_nlink) - return __this_address; } /* don't allow invalid i_size */