libxfs: directory node splitting does not have an extra block
xfsprogs source commit 4280e59dcbc4cd8e01585efe788a68eb378048e8 xfs_da3_split() has to handle all three versions of the directory/attribute btree structure. The attr tree is v1, the dir tre is v2 or v3. The main difference between the v1 and v2/3 trees is the way tree nodes are split - in the v1 tree we can require a double split to occur because the object to be inserted may be larger than the space made by splitting a leaf. In this case we need to do a double split - one to split the full leaf, then another to allocate an empty leaf block in the correct location for the new entry. This does not happen with dir (v2/v3) formats as the objects being inserted are always guaranteed to fit into the new space in the split blocks. Indeed, for directories they *may* be an extra block on this buffer pointer. However, it's guaranteed not to be a leaf block (i.e. a directory data block) - the directory code only ever places hash index or free space blocks in this pointer (as a cursor of sorts), and so to use it as a directory data block will immediately corrupt the directory. The problem is that the code assumes that there may be extra blocks that we need to link into the tree once we've split the root, but this is not true for either dir or attr trees, because the extra attr block is always consumed by the last node split before we split the root. Hence the linking in an extra block is always wrong at the root split level, and this manifests itself in repair as a directory corruption in a repaired directory, leaving the directory rebuild incomplete. This is a dir v2 zero-day bug - it was in the initial dir v2 commit that was made back in February 1998. Fix this by ensuring the linking of the blocks after the root split never tries to make use of the extra blocks that may be held in the cursor. They are held there for other purposes and should never be touched by the root splitting code. Signed-off-by:Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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