On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 08:00:55PM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote: > > On 04/22 2014 14:59 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Commit e461fcb ("xfs: remote attribute lookups require the value > > length") passes the remote attribute length in the xfs_da_args > > structure on lookup so that CRC calculations and validity checking > > can be performed correctly by related code. This, unfortunately has > > the side effect of changing the args->valuelen parameter in cases > > where it shouldn't. > > > > That is, when we replace a remote attribute, the incoming > > replacement stores the value and length in args->value and > > args->valuelen, but then the lookup which finds the existing remote > > attribute overwrites args->valuelen with the length of the remote > > attribute being replaced. Hence when we go to create the new > > attribute, we create it of the size of the existing remote > > attribute, not the size it is supposed to be. When the new attribute > > is much smaller than the old attribute, this results in a > > transaction overrun and an ASSERT() failure on a debug kernel: > > > > XFS: Assertion failed: tp->t_blk_res_used <= tp->t_blk_res, file: fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c, line: 331 > > > > Fix this by keeping the remote attribute value length separate to > > the attribute value length in the xfs_da_args structure. The enables > > us to pass the length of the remote attribute to be removed without > > overwriting the new attribute's length. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> .... > > @@ -348,6 +348,11 @@ xfs_attr_rmtval_get( > > > > ASSERT(!(args->flags & ATTR_KERNOVAL)); > > > > + /* remote value might be different size to the buffer supplied. */ > > + if (args->rmtvaluelen = args->valuelen) > ^^^ > Here is a typo... Oh, well spotted. But, hold on a minute, shouldn't gcc be catching those sorts of typos? /me groans $ gcc t.c $ gcc -Wall t.c t.c: In function ¿main¿: t.c:10:2: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses] if (foo = bar) ^ $ Only if -Wparentheses is specified. Why the hell are we suppressing useful warnings on the kernel build? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs