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SubjectRe: [BUG] Reiserfs panic while running fsstress due to multiple truncate "safe links" for a file.
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 08 May 2006 17:03:41 +0530
> Suzuki <suzuki@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Resending, since there were no responses to the earlier post.
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>
>>I was working on a reiserfs panic with 2.6.17-rc3, while running fs
>>stress tests.
>>
>>The panic message looked like :
>>
>>" REISERFS: panic (device Null superblock): reiserfs[4248]: assertion
>>!(truncate && (REISERFS_I(inode)->i_flags & i_link_saved_truncate_mask)
>>) failed at fs/reiserfs/super.c:328:add_save_link: saved link already re
>>exists for truncated inode 13b5a "
>>
>>------ Summary of the problem -----------
>>
>>Reiserfs uses "safe links" ( directory entries with some special key
>>value) to keep track of "truncated" or "unlinked" files to ensure
>>integrity across crashes.
>>
>>Whenever there is a truncate/unlink on a file, Reiserfs creates a safe
>>link for the same and deletes the same once the operation is complete.
>>If the machine crashes before committing the operation, whenever the fs
>>is mounted next time, the fs will look for the saved links ( easy to
>>find out, since they have special key) and commit the operation that was
>>unfinished.
>>
>>
>>The problem here occurs as follows:
>>
>> Whenever there is an extending DIO write operation, the fs would
>>create a safe link so as to ensure the file size consistent, if there is
>>crash in between the DIO. This will be deleted once the write operation
>>finishes.
>>
>> If the DIO write happens to go through a "HOLE" region in the file, it
>>will fall into normal "buffered write", which is done through the
>>address space operations prepare_write() & commit_write(). Now, the
>>prepare_write() might allocate blocks for the file (if needed). So if
>>there is some error at a later point (say ENOSPC) in prepare_write(), we
>>need to discard the allocated blocks. This is done by calling
>>"vmtruncate()" on the file. This call leads to reiserfs specific
>>truncate, which would try to add a save link for the file.
>>
>>This addition causes a reiserfs_panic, since there is already a "save
>>link" stored for the file.
>>
>>
>>I have a simple testcase to reproduce the problem, which does the same
>>as described above. I will attach it if required.
>>
>>Any thoughts on how to fix this ?
>>
>
>
> Did we end up fixing this?

Finally, we were able to verify this on 2.6.18-rc7. Sorry for the delay.

Vladimir wrote :

"I am not sure why safe link is needed for write. Maybe one who
added that still remembers why that was done and can explain, please? "


The patch attached by Vladimir has been modified to fit into the current
level.

The patch is on 2.6.19-rc1.

Thanks,

-Suzuki

>
> Thanks.

* Do not add save links for O_DIRECT writes.

We add a save link for O_DIRECT writes to protect the i_size against the crashes before we actually finish the I/O. If we hit an -ENOSPC in aops->prepare_write(), we would do a truncate() to release the blocks which might have got initialized. Now the truncate would add another save link for the same inode causing a reiserfs panic for having multiple save links for the same inode.


Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Arora <amitarora@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>


Index: linux-2.6.19-rc1/fs/reiserfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.19-rc1.orig/fs/reiserfs/file.c 2006-10-10 05:54:30.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc1/fs/reiserfs/file.c 2006-11-21 17:17:36.000000000 -0800
@@ -1306,56 +1306,8 @@
count = MAX_NON_LFS - (unsigned long)*ppos;
}

- if (file->f_flags & O_DIRECT) { // Direct IO needs treatment
- ssize_t result, after_file_end = 0;
- if ((*ppos + count >= inode->i_size)
- || (file->f_flags & O_APPEND)) {
- /* If we are appending a file, we need to put this savelink in here.
- If we will crash while doing direct io, finish_unfinished will
- cut the garbage from the file end. */
- reiserfs_write_lock(inode->i_sb);
- err =
- journal_begin(&th, inode->i_sb,
- JOURNAL_PER_BALANCE_CNT);
- if (err) {
- reiserfs_write_unlock(inode->i_sb);
- return err;
- }
- reiserfs_update_inode_transaction(inode);
- add_save_link(&th, inode, 1 /* Truncate */ );
- after_file_end = 1;
- err =
- journal_end(&th, inode->i_sb,
- JOURNAL_PER_BALANCE_CNT);
- reiserfs_write_unlock(inode->i_sb);
- if (err)
- return err;
- }
- result = do_sync_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
-
- if (after_file_end) { /* Now update i_size and remove the savelink */
- struct reiserfs_transaction_handle th;
- reiserfs_write_lock(inode->i_sb);
- err = journal_begin(&th, inode->i_sb, 1);
- if (err) {
- reiserfs_write_unlock(inode->i_sb);
- return err;
- }
- reiserfs_update_inode_transaction(inode);
- mark_inode_dirty(inode);
- err = journal_end(&th, inode->i_sb, 1);
- if (err) {
- reiserfs_write_unlock(inode->i_sb);
- return err;
- }
- err = remove_save_link(inode, 1 /* truncate */ );
- reiserfs_write_unlock(inode->i_sb);
- if (err)
- return err;
- }
-
- return result;
- }
+ if (file->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
+ return do_sync_write(file, buf, count, ppos);

if (unlikely((ssize_t) count < 0))
return -EINVAL;
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