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Commit 8407f553 authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana Committed by Chris Mason
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Btrfs: fix data corruption after fast fsync and writeback error



When we do a fast fsync, we start all ordered operations and then while
they're running in parallel we visit the list of modified extent maps
and construct their matching file extent items and write them to the
log btree. After that, in btrfs_sync_log() we wait for all the ordered
operations to finish (via btrfs_wait_logged_extents).

The problem with this is that we were completely ignoring errors that
can happen in the extent write path, such as -ENOSPC, a temporary -ENOMEM
or -EIO errors for example. When such error happens, it means we have parts
of the on disk extent that weren't written to, and so we end up logging
file extent items that point to these extents that contain garbage/random
data - so after a crash/reboot plus log replay, we get our inode's metadata
pointing to those extents.

This worked in contrast with the full (non-fast) fsync path, where we
start all ordered operations, wait for them to finish and then write
to the log btree. In this path, after each ordered operation completes
we check if it's flagged with an error (BTRFS_ORDERED_IOERR) and return
-EIO if so (via btrfs_wait_ordered_range).

So if an error happens with any ordered operation, just return a -EIO
error to userspace, so that it knows that not all of its previous writes
were durably persisted and the application can take proper action (like
redo the writes for e.g.) - and definitely not leave any file extent items
in the log refer to non fully written extents.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Mason <clm@fb.com>
parent 669249ee
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