linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink

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Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:16:03 +0800 (CST)
From:   <cheng.lin130@....com.cn>
To:     <david@...morbit.com>, <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc:     <djwong@...nel.org>, <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <jiang.yong5@....com.cn>,
        <wang.liang82@....com.cn>, <liu.dong3@....com.cn>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfs: introduce protection for drop nlink

> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 04:12:56PM +0800, cheng.lin130@....com.cn wrote:
> > From: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@....com.cn>
> >
> > When abnormal drop_nlink are detected on the inode,
> > shutdown filesystem, to avoid corruption propagation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cheng Lin <cheng.lin130@....com.cn>
> > ---
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c | 3 +++
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 9 +++++++++
> >  fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 1 +
> >  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> > index 7cb75cb6b..6fc1cfe83 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
> > @@ -543,6 +543,9 @@ xfs_do_force_shutdown(
> >      } else if (flags & SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT_ONDISK) {
> >          tag = XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT;
> >          why = "Corruption of on-disk metadata";
> > +    } else if (flags & SHUTDOWN_CORRRUPT_ABN) {
> > +        tag = XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT;
> > +        why = "Corruption of Abnormal conditions";
> We don't need a new shutdown tag. We can consider this in-memory
> corruption because we detected it in memory before it went to disk
> (SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT_INCORE) or even on-disk corruption because the
> reference count on disk is likely wrong at this point......
> >      } else if (flags & SHUTDOWN_DEVICE_REMOVED) {
> >          tag = XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_IOERROR;
> >          why = "Block device removal";
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > index 9e62cc500..2d41f2461 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
> > @@ -919,6 +919,15 @@ xfs_droplink(
> >      xfs_trans_t *tp,
> >      xfs_inode_t *ip)
> >  {
> > +
> > +    if (VFS_I(ip)->i_nlink == 0) {
> > +        xfs_alert(ip->i_mount,
> > +              "%s: Deleting inode %llu with no links.",
> > +              __func__, ip->i_ino);
> > +        xfs_force_shutdown(ip->i_mount, SHUTDOWN_CORRRUPT_ABN);
> > +        return -EFSCORRUPTED;
> > +    }
> > +
> >      xfs_trans_ichgtime(tp, ip, XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG);
> >
> >      drop_nlink(VFS_I(ip));
> I'd kind of prefer that drop_nlink() be made to return an error on
> underrun - if it's important enough to drop a warning in the log and
> potentially panic the kernel, it's important enough to tell the
> filesystem an underrun has occurred.  But that opens a whole new can
> of worms, so I think this will be fine.
In VFS, (drop\clear\set\inc)_nlink() all return void. 
Is it appropriate, if let them return an error instead of WARN_ON?
> Note that we don't actually need a call to shut the filesystem down.
> Simply returning -EFSCORRUPTED will result in the filesystem being
> shut down if the transaction is dirty when it gets cancelled due to
> the droplink error.
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david@...morbit.com