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xfs: Add helper for checking per-inode extent count overflow
XFS does not check for possible overflow of per-inode extent counter fields when adding extents to either data or attr fork. For e.g. 1. Insert 5 million xattrs (each having a value size of 255 bytes) and then delete 50% of them in an alternating manner. 2. On a 4k block sized XFS filesystem instance, the above causes 98511 extents to be created in the attr fork of the inode. xfsaild/loop0 2008 [003] 1475.127209: probe:xfs_inode_to_disk: (ffffffffa43fb6b0) if_nextents=98511 i_ino=131 3. The incore inode fork extent counter is a signed 32-bit quantity. However the on-disk extent counter is an unsigned 16-bit quantity and hence cannot hold 98511 extents. 4. The following incorrect value is stored in the attr extent counter, # xfs_db -f -c 'inode 131' -c 'print core.naextents' /dev/loop0 core.naextents = -32561 This commit adds a new helper function (i.e. xfs_iext_count_may_overflow()) to check for overflow of the per-inode data and xattr extent counters. Future patches will use this function to make sure that an FS operation won't cause the extent counter to overflow. Suggested-by:Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: