Btrfs: fix directory inconsistency after fsync log replay
If we have an inode (file) with a link count greater than 1, remove one of its hard links, fsync the inode, power fail/crash and then replay the fsync log on the next mount, we end up getting the parent directory's metadata inconsistent - its i_size still reflects the deleted hard link and has dangling index entries (with no matching inode reference entries). This prevents the directory from ever being deletable, as its i_size can never decrease to BTRFS_EMPTY_DIR_SIZE even if all of its children inodes are deleted, and the dangling index entries can never be removed (as they point to an inode that does not exist anymore). This is easy to reproduce with the following excerpt from the test case for xfstests that I just made: _scratch_mkfs >> $seqres.full 2>&1 _init_flakey _mount_flakey # Create a test file with 2 hard links in the same directory. mkdir -p $SCRATCH_MNT/a/b echo "hello world" > $SCRATCH_MNT/a/b/foo ln $SCRATCH_MNT/a/b/foo $SCRATCH_MNT/a/b/bar # Make sure all metadata and data are durably persisted. sync # Now remove one of the hard links and fsync the inode. rm -f $SCRATCH_MNT/a/b/bar $XFS_IO_PROG -c "fsync" $SCRATCH_MNT/a/b/foo # Simulate a crash/power loss. This makes sure the next mount # will see an fsync log and will replay that log. _load_flakey_table $FLAKEY_DROP_WRITES _unmount_flakey _load_flakey_table $FLAKEY_ALLOW_WRITES _mount_flakey # Remove the last hard link of the file and attempt to remove its parent # directory - this failed in btrfs because the fsync log and replay code # didn't decrement the parent directory's i_size and left dangling directory # index entries - this made the btrfs rmdir implementation always fail with # the error -ENOTEMPTY. # # The dangling directory index entries were visible to user space, but it was # impossible to do anything on them (unlink, open, read, write, stat, etc) # because the inode they pointed to did not exist anymore. # # The parent directory's metadata inconsistency (stale index entries) was # also detected by btrfs' fsck tool, which is run automatically by the fstests # framework when the test finishes. The error message reported by fsck was: # # root 5 inode 259 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong # unresolved ref dir 258 index 3 namelen 3 name bar filetype 1 errors 4, no inode ref # rm -f $SCRATCH_MNT/a/b/* rmdir $SCRATCH_MNT/a/b rmdir $SCRATCH_MNT/a To fix this just make sure that after an unlink, if the inode is fsync'ed, he parent inode is fully logged in the fsync log. A test case for xfstests follows soon. Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
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