Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

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Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
index 37e7c33f6283..8f47396f8dd2 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c
@@ -289,6 +289,23 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_verify_entry(
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Validate an attribute leaf block.
+ *
+ * Empty leaf blocks can occur under the following circumstances:
+ *
+ * 1. setxattr adds a new extended attribute to a file;
+ * 2. The file has zero existing attributes;
+ * 3. The attribute is too large to fit in the attribute fork;
+ * 4. The attribute is small enough to fit in a leaf block;
+ * 5. A log flush occurs after committing the transaction that creates
+ *    the (empty) leaf block; and
+ * 6. The filesystem goes down after the log flush but before the new
+ *    attribute can be committed to the leaf block.
+ *
+ * Hence we need to ensure that we don't fail the validation purely
+ * because the leaf is empty.
+ */
 static xfs_failaddr_t
 xfs_attr3_leaf_verify(
 	struct xfs_buf			*bp)
@@ -311,15 +328,6 @@ xfs_attr3_leaf_verify(
 		return fa;
 
 	/*
-	 * Empty leaf blocks should never occur;  they imply the existence of a
-	 * software bug that needs fixing. xfs_repair also flags them as a
-	 * corruption that needs fixing, so we should never let these go to
-	 * disk.
-	 */
-	if (ichdr.count == 0)
-		return __this_address;
-
-	/*
 	 * firstused is the block offset of the first name info structure.
 	 * Make sure it doesn't go off the block or crash into the header.
 	 */
@@ -922,14 +930,10 @@ xfs_attr_shortform_getvalue(
 	return -ENOATTR;
 }
 
-/*
- * Convert from using the shortform to the leaf.  On success, return the
- * buffer so that we can keep it locked until we're totally done with it.
- */
+/* Convert from using the shortform to the leaf format. */
 int
 xfs_attr_shortform_to_leaf(
-	struct xfs_da_args		*args,
-	struct xfs_buf			**leaf_bp)
+	struct xfs_da_args		*args)
 {
 	struct xfs_inode		*dp;
 	struct xfs_attr_shortform	*sf;
@@ -991,7 +995,6 @@ xfs_attr_shortform_to_leaf(
 		sfe = xfs_attr_sf_nextentry(sfe);
 	}
 	error = 0;
-	*leaf_bp = bp;
 out:
 	kmem_free(tmpbuffer);
 	return error;