Re: [PATCH 0/2] xfs: avoid overflow of attr3 leaf block headers with 64k blocks

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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:50:22PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As it turns out, some of the leaf block codepaths other than xattr
> addition look like they wouldn't work properly with an unaligned
> firstused value as demonstrated in my previous patch:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2015-02/msg00479.html
> 
> Here's an alternate approach that handles the overflow in the header
> conversion functions. It passes the basic tests so far, but more testing
> is needed to make sure I've made valid assumptions. Thoughts?
> 
> FWIW, another approach could be to leak the last few bytes of the blocks
> (e.g., max firstused at the last valid aligned offset and update freemap
> size accordingly)...
> 

ping?

> Brian
> 
> Brian Foster (2):
>   xfs: pass attr geometry to attr leaf header conversion functions
>   xfs: use larger in-core attr firstused field and detect overflow
> 
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.h |  6 ++-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_format.h |  8 +++-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_attr_inactive.c    |  3 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_attr_list.c        |  9 ++--
>  5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.9.3
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