Re: [PATCH 3/5] xfs_repair: fix dir refcount when '.' missing and dir is rebuilt

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On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 09:45:25AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 11:41:03AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > In phase 6's longform_dir2_entry_check, if we never
> > find a '.' entry we never add a reference to that entry;
> > if we subsequently rebuild it, '.' gets added, but
> > no ref to it is ever made.  This leads to Phase 7 doing
> > i.e.:
> > 
> >   Phase 7 - verify and correct link counts...
> >   resetting inode 5184 nlinks from 2 to 1
> > 
> > and the next run will do:
> > 
> >   Phase 7 - verify and correct link counts...
> >   resetting inode 5184 nlinks from 1 to 2
> > 
> > So if '.' was never found, but the directory got
> > rebuilt, manually add the ref for it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  repair/phase6.c |    6 ++++++
> >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/repair/phase6.c b/repair/phase6.c
> > index f13069f..cc36a9c 100644
> > --- a/repair/phase6.c
> > +++ b/repair/phase6.c
> > @@ -2288,6 +2288,12 @@ out_fix:
> >  			if (bplist[i])
> >  				libxfs_putbuf(bplist[i]);
> >  		longform_dir2_rebuild(mp, ino, ip, irec, ino_offset, hashtab);
> > +		/*
> > +		 * If we didn't find a dot, we never added a ref for it;
> > +		 * it's there now after the rebuild, so mark it as reached.
> > +		 */
> > +		if (*need_dot)
> > +			add_inode_ref(irec, ino_offset);
> 
> So if I follow this correctly, we iterate through the dir, add each name
> to the hashtable and handle the inode reference count in the first
> longform_dir2_entry_check() loop. If something is wrong, we call
> longform_dir2_rebuild() to rebuild the dir from the hashtable of
> names/inodes. We may or may not have added a reference for dot at that
> point, and need_dot is set appropriately.
> 
> This seems Ok, but where is the dot entry actually added? Hmm, I see
> that we handle dot in the longform_dir2_rebuild() loop by just skipping
> over it...
> 

It looks like this happens in process_dir_inode() after this whole
check/rebuild sequence, directory format permitting. There's also an
add_inode_ref() there. Perhaps the bug here is that we clear need_dot
when we shouldn't..?

Brian

> Brian
> 
> 
> >  		*num_illegal = 0;
> >  		*need_dot = 0;
> >  	} else {
> > -- 
> > 1.7.1
> > 
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