From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Only directories or regular files are allowed in the metadata directory tree. Don't move the repair tempfile to the metadir namespace if this is not true; this will cause the inode verifiers to trip. xrep_tempfile_adjust_directory_tree opportunistically moves sc->tempip from the regular directory tree to the metadata directory tree if sc->ip is part of the metadata directory tree. However, the scrub setup functions grab sc->ip and create sc->tempip before we actually get around to checking if the file mode is the right type for the scrubber. IOWs, you can invoke the symlink scrubber with the file handle of a subdirectory in the metadir. xrep_setup_symlink will create a temporary symlink file, xrep_tempfile_adjust_directory_tree will foolishly try to set the METADATA flag on the temp symlink, which trips the inode verifier in the inode item precommit, which shuts down the filesystem when expensive checks are turned on. If they're /not/ turned on, then xchk_symlink will return ENOENT when it sees that it's been passed a symlink, but the invalid inode could still get flushed to disk. We don't want that. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v6.13-rc1 Fixes: 9dc31acb01a1c7 ("xfs: move repair temporary files to the metadata directory tree") Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/scrub/tempfile.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/tempfile.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/tempfile.c index dc3802c7f678ce..82ecbb654fbb39 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/scrub/tempfile.c +++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/tempfile.c @@ -204,6 +204,9 @@ xrep_tempfile_adjust_directory_tree( if (!sc->ip || !xfs_is_metadir_inode(sc->ip)) return 0; + if (!S_ISDIR(VFS_I(sc->tempip)->i_mode) && + !S_ISREG(VFS_I(sc->tempip)->i_mode)) + return 0; xfs_ilock(sc->tempip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL); sc->temp_ilock_flags |= XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL;