From: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d49d3287e74ffe55ae7430d1e795e5f9bf7359ea upstream. If we have the following sequence of events btrfs sub create A btrfs sub create A/B btrfs sub snap A C mkdir C/foo mv A/B C/foo rm -rf * We will end up with a transaction abort. The reason for this is because we create a root ref for B pointing to A. When we create a snapshot of C we still have B in our tree, but because the root ref points to A and not C we will make it appear to be empty. The problem happens when we move B into C. This removes the root ref for B pointing to A and adds a ref of B pointing to C. When we rmdir C we'll see that we have a ref to our root and remove the root ref, despite not actually matching our reference name. Now btrfs_del_root_ref() allowing this to work is a bug as well, however we know that this inode does not actually point to a root ref in the first place, so we shouldn't be calling btrfs_del_root_ref() in the first place and instead simply look up our dir index for this item and do the rest of the removal. CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.4+ Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c @@ -4168,13 +4168,16 @@ static int btrfs_unlink_subvol(struct bt } btrfs_release_path(path); - ret = btrfs_del_root_ref(trans, objectid, root->root_key.objectid, - dir_ino, &index, name, name_len); - if (ret < 0) { - if (ret != -ENOENT) { - btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret); - goto out; - } + /* + * This is a placeholder inode for a subvolume we didn't have a + * reference to at the time of the snapshot creation. In the meantime + * we could have renamed the real subvol link into our snapshot, so + * depending on btrfs_del_root_ref to return -ENOENT here is incorret. + * Instead simply lookup the dir_index_item for this entry so we can + * remove it. Otherwise we know we have a ref to the root and we can + * call btrfs_del_root_ref, and it _shouldn't_ fail. + */ + if (btrfs_ino(inode) == BTRFS_EMPTY_SUBVOL_DIR_OBJECTID) { di = btrfs_search_dir_index_item(root, path, dir_ino, name, name_len); if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(di)) { @@ -4189,8 +4192,16 @@ static int btrfs_unlink_subvol(struct bt leaf = path->nodes[0]; btrfs_item_key_to_cpu(leaf, &key, path->slots[0]); index = key.offset; + btrfs_release_path(path); + } else { + ret = btrfs_del_root_ref(trans, objectid, + root->root_key.objectid, dir_ino, + &index, name, name_len); + if (ret) { + btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret); + goto out; + } } - btrfs_release_path(path); ret = btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index(trans, BTRFS_I(dir), index); if (ret) {