On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 09:01:13PM +0400, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Samuel Just <sam.just@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Actually, on this ubuntu kernel (3.13.0-24-generic), it doesn't seem
>> > to give an error. I'll attach my test case for that. We don't yet
>> > have a way of reproducing the corruption -- the ext_size change in the
>> > osd simply seemed like a promising lead.
>> > -Sam
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 06:16:54PM -0700, Samuel Just wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> We are seeing reports of ceph-osd stores on xfs of files with some
>> >>> garbage data (possibly misplaced from data elsewhere in the
>> >>> filesystem). There was a bug for a while where the ceph-osd process
>> >>> would set a value for fsx_extsize on a non-empty (possibly sparse)
>> >>> file using XFS_IOC_FSSETXATTR. Could that plausibly result in a file
>> >>> with garbage data?
>> >>
>> >> No, setting an extent size on a non-empty file will simply fail
>> >> with EINVAL.
>>
>> AFAIR it checks whether or not any extents are actually allocated, not
>> whether the file is empty or not.
>
> FWIW, that's an implementation detail, not the definition of the
> intended behaviour of the ioctl. Indeed, the man page says:
>
> "The fsx_xflags realtime file bit and the file's extent size may be
> changed only when the file is empty, ..."
>
> For most people, "[non-]empty file" is much more easily understood
> than "a file without real extents, but might have been written to
> and so have dirty, in-memory delayed allocation data whose
> asynchronous flushing may or may not affect the behaviour of a call
> to XFS_IOC_FSSETXATTR".
>
> i.e. the intended application behaviour is that they should only be
> able to change the extent size hint *before* any data is written to
> the file.
>
>> I think if you call fsync() or even
>> fdatasync() before close(fd), it will fail as expected.
>
> Only if you are trying to change the extent size immediately after
> the first write you do to an empty file. Which is, as per the above,
> not the recommended or intended use of the ioctl.
That's understood, but that is exactly what Sam's test program happens
to try to do, so I had to point the "file w/o real extents" thing out.
Thanks,
Ilya
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