Re: [STABLE 4.19] fixes for xfs memory and fs corruption

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 07:12:48PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Darrick,
> 
> Can I have your blessing on the choice of these upstream commits
> as stable candidates?
> I did not observe any xfstests regressions when testing v4.19.55
> with these patches applied.

All four commits look reasonable to me. :)

--D

> Sasha,
> 
> Can you run these patches though your xfstests setup?
> They fix nasty bugs.
> 
> Make sure to update xfsprogs to very latest, because
> generic/530 used to blow up (OOM) my test machine...
> 
> >
> > The first patch fixes a memory corruption that syzkaller found in the
> > attr listent code;
> 
> 3b50086f0c0d xfs: don't overflow xattr listent buffer
> 
> > see "generic: posix acl extended attribute memory
> > corruption test" for the relevant regression test.
> 
> Fixed generic/529
> 
> >
> > Patches 2 fixes problems found in XFS's unlinked inode recovery code
> > that were unearthed by some new testcases.  We're logging nlink==1 temp
> > files on the iunlinked list (and then the vfs sets nlink to 0 without
> > telling us) which means that we leak them in recovery if we crash
> > immediately after the committing the creation of the temp file.
> >
> > Patch 3 fixes the problem that ifree during recovery can expand the
> > finobt but we need to force the ifree code to reserve blocks for the
> > transaction because perag reservations aren't set up yet.
> 
> e1f6ca113815 xfs: rename m_inotbt_nores to m_finobt_nores
> 15a268d9f263 xfs: reserve blocks for ifree transaction during log recovery
> c4a6bf7f6cc7 xfs: don't ever put nlink > 0 inodes on the unlinked list
> 
> >
> > See "[PATCH v2 2/2] generic: check the behavior of programs opening a
> > lot of O_TMPFILE files" for the regression test.
> >
> 
> Fixes generic/530
> 
> Thanks,
> Amir.



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