Message-ID: <6628BBE1.7070002@huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:59:29 +0800
From: "yebin (H)" <yebin10@...wei.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Ext4 Developers List
	<linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] jbd2: avoid mount failed when commit block is partial
 submitted



On 2024/4/14 7:27, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2024, at 7:30 PM, Ye Bin <yebin10@...wei.com> wrote:
>> We encountered a problem that the file system could not be mounted in
>> the power-off scenario. The analysis of the file system mirror shows that
>> only part of the data is written to the last commit block.
>> The valid data of the commit block is concentrated in the first sector.
>> However, the data of the entire block is involved in the checksum calculation.
>> For different hardware, the minimum atomic unit may be different.
>> If the checksum of a committed block is incorrect, clear the data except the
>> 'commit_header' and then calculate the checksum. If the checkusm is correct,
>> it is considered that the block is partially committed.
> I think this is a clever solution to the problem, thanks for submitting
> the patch.
>
>> However, if there are valid description/revoke blocks, it is considered
>> that the data is abnormal and the log replay is stopped.
> It would be possible to use the r_count of records in the revoke block
> to determine how much of the revoke block is unused and could be zeroed
> out to recompute the partial checksum?  That should be relatively safe
> to try, as long as r_count is itself checked to fit within the block
> before the memory is zeroed, to avoid overflowing the temporary buffer size:
>
>         r_count <= journal_revoke_records_per_block(journal)
>
>
> It is open for discussion how much corruption should be allowed in the
> journal, since it can be very destructive to copy corrupted blocks from
> one place in the journal exactly into important metadata blocks across
> the whole filesystem.  That said, the checksums *should* avoid this kind
> of problem, and revoke blocks do not contain "metadata" that is copied
> into the filesystem but only block numbers to skip.  It is "less bad" if
> this was wrong, and having an incomplete journal replay due to minor
> corruption that is causing boot failure is also a problem that should be
> avoided if it can safely be done.
>
>
> Additional comments inline below:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@...wei.com>
>> ---
>> fs/jbd2/recovery.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/recovery.c b/fs/jbd2/recovery.c
>> index 1f7664984d6e..eb0e026f3109 100644
>> --- a/fs/jbd2/recovery.c
>> +++ b/fs/jbd2/recovery.c
>> @@ -443,6 +443,27 @@ static int jbd2_commit_block_csum_verify(journal_t *j, void *buf)
>> 	return provided == cpu_to_be32(calculated);
>> }
>>
>> +static bool jbd2_commit_block_csum_partial_verify(journal_t *j, void *buf)
>> +{
> (style) if this is named jbd2_commit_block_csum_verify_partial() then
> it would sort together with jbd2_commit_block_csum_verify() and would
> be easier to find with tag completion and grep in the future.
>
>> +	struct commit_header *h;
>> +	__be32 provided;
>> +	__u32 calculated;
>> +	void *tmpbuf;
>> +
>> +	tmpbuf = kzalloc(j->j_blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	if (!tmpbuf)
>> +		return false;
>> +
>> +	memcpy(tmpbuf, buf, sizeof(struct commit_header));
>> +	h = tmpbuf;
>> +	provided = h->h_chksum[0];
>> +	h->h_chksum[0] = 0;
>> +	calculated = jbd2_chksum(j, j->j_csum_seed, tmpbuf, j->j_blocksize);
>> +	kfree(tmpbuf);
>> +
>> +	return provided == cpu_to_be32(calculated);
>> +}
>> +
>> static int jbd2_block_tag_csum_verify(journal_t *j, journal_block_tag_t *tag,
>> 				      journal_block_tag3_t *tag3,
>> 				      void *buf, __u32 sequence)
>> @@ -479,6 +500,7 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
>> 	int			descr_csum_size = 0;
>> 	int			block_error = 0;
>> 	bool			need_check_commit_time = false;
>> +	bool                    has_partial_commit = false;
>> 	__u64			last_trans_commit_time = 0, commit_time;
>>
>> 	/*
>> @@ -590,6 +612,14 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
>> 					next_log_block);
>> 			}
>>
>> +			if (pass == PASS_SCAN && has_partial_commit) {
>> +				pr_err("JBD2: Detect validate descriptor block %lu after incomplete commit block\n",
> (minor) it isn't clear to me what this error message is trying to say?
> Should it be something like "detected invalid descriptor block ..."?
>
>> +				       next_log_block);
>> +				err = -EFSBADCRC;
>> +				brelse(bh);
>> +				goto failed;
>> +			}
>> +
>> 			/* If it is a valid descriptor block, replay it
>> 			 * in pass REPLAY; if journal_checksums enabled, then
>> 			 * calculate checksums in PASS_SCAN, otherwise,
>> @@ -810,6 +840,14 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
>> 			if (pass == PASS_SCAN &&
>> 			    !jbd2_commit_block_csum_verify(journal,
>> 							   bh->b_data)) {
>> +				if (jbd2_commit_block_csum_partial_verify(
> If this function was restructured a bit then the code flow would not need
> to get more complex than it already is.  Something like:
>
> 			if (pass == PASS_SCAN &&
> 			    !(jbd2_commit_block_csum_verify(journal,
> 							    bh->b_data) ||
> 			      (has_partial_commit =
> 			       jbd2_commit_block_csum_verify_partial(journal,
> 							    bh->b_data))) {
>
> The pr_notice() can be printed by jbd2_commit_block_csum_partial_verify()
> if the partial checksum is valid, so no need for goto and chksum_ok label.
I modified it according to your idea, and found that the logic will be 
faulty when the checksum
is not enabled.
>
>> +					pr_notice("JBD2: Find incomplete commit block in transaction %u block %lu\n",
>> +						  next_commit_ID, next_log_block);
>> +					has_partial_commit = true;
>> +					goto chksum_ok;
>> +				}
>> 			chksum_error:
>> 				if (commit_time < last_trans_commit_time)
>> 					goto ignore_crc_mismatch;
>> @@ -824,6 +862,7 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
>> 				}
>> 			}
>> 			if (pass == PASS_SCAN) {
>> +			chksum_ok:
>> 				last_trans_commit_time = commit_time;
>> 				head_block = next_log_block;
>> 			}
>> @@ -843,6 +882,15 @@ static int do_one_pass(journal_t *journal,
>> 					  next_log_block);
>> 				need_check_commit_time = true;
>> 			}
>> +
>> +			if (pass == PASS_SCAN && has_partial_commit) {
>> +				pr_err("JBD2: Detect validate revoke block %lu after incomplete commit block\n",
> Similarly, I find this error message hard to understand.  Maybe "detected invalid revoke block ..."?
>
>> +				       next_log_block);
>> +				err = -EFSBADCRC;
>> +				brelse(bh);
>> +				goto failed;
>> +			}
>> +
>> 			/* If we aren't in the REVOKE pass, then we can
>> 			 * just skip over this block. */
>> 			if (pass != PASS_REVOKE) {
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>
>
> Cheers, Andreas
>
>
>
>
>

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