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    xfs: log recovery should replay deferred ops in order · 50995582
    Darrick J. Wong authored
    
    
    As part of testing log recovery with dm_log_writes, Amir Goldstein
    discovered an error in the deferred ops recovery that lead to corruption
    of the filesystem metadata if a reflink+rmap filesystem happened to shut
    down midway through a CoW remap:
    
    "This is what happens [after failed log recovery]:
    
    "Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
    "Phase 2 - using internal log
    "        - zero log...
    "        - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps...
    "        - found root inode chunk
    "Phase 3 - for each AG...
    "        - scan (but don't clear) agi unlinked lists...
    "        - process known inodes and perform inode discovery...
    "        - agno = 0
    "data fork in regular inode 134 claims CoW block 376
    "correcting nextents for inode 134
    "bad data fork in inode 134
    "would have cleared inode 134"
    
    Hou Tao dissected the log contents of exactly such a crash:
    
    "According to the implementation of xfs_defer_finish(), these ops should
    be completed in the following sequence:
    
    "Have been done:
    "(1) CUI: Oper (160)
    "(2) BUI: Oper (161)
    "(3) CUD: Oper (194), for CUI Oper (160)
    "(4) RUI A: Oper (197), free rmap [0x155, 2, -9]
    
    "Should be done:
    "(5) BUD: for BUI Oper (161)
    "(6) RUI B: add rmap [0x155, 2, 137]
    "(7) RUD: for RUI A
    "(8) RUD: for RUI B
    
    "Actually be done by xlog_recover_process_intents()
    "(5) BUD: for BUI Oper (161)
    "(6) RUI B: add rmap [0x155, 2, 137]
    "(7) RUD: for RUI B
    "(8) RUD: for RUI A
    
    "So the rmap entry [0x155, 2, -9] for COW should be freed firstly,
    then a new rmap entry [0x155, 2, 137] will be added. However, as we can see
    from the log record in post_mount.log (generated after umount) and the trace
    print, the new rmap entry [0x155, 2, 137] are added firstly, then the rmap
    entry [0x155, 2, -9] are freed."
    
    When reconstructing the internal log state from the log items found on
    disk, it's required that deferred ops replay in exactly the same order
    that they would have had the filesystem not gone down.  However,
    replaying unfinished deferred ops can create /more/ deferred ops.  These
    new deferred ops are finished in the wrong order.  This causes fs
    corruption and replay crashes, so let's create a single defer_ops to
    handle the subsequent ops created during replay, then use one single
    transaction at the end of log recovery to ensure that everything is
    replayed in the same order as they're supposed to be.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
    Analyzed-by: default avatarHou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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