tree fd13b5511cd8b5a99eed69ad93f026d8d942eb03
parent 7c392aeb49a807715dd0e23180326705306f10f1
author Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> 1650534999 +0100
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 1652350498 +0200

btrfs: always log symlinks in full mode

commit d0e64a981fd841cb0f28fcd6afcac55e6f1e6994 upstream.

On Linux, empty symlinks are invalid, and attempting to create one with
the system call symlink(2) results in an -ENOENT error and this is
explicitly documented in the man page.

If we rename a symlink that was created in the current transaction and its
parent directory was logged before, we actually end up logging the symlink
without logging its content, which is stored in an inline extent. That
means that after a power failure we can end up with an empty symlink,
having no content and an i_size of 0 bytes.

It can be easily reproduced like this:

  $ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdc
  $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt

  $ mkdir /mnt/testdir
  $ sync

  # Create a file inside the directory and fsync the directory.
  $ touch /mnt/testdir/foo
  $ xfs_io -c "fsync" /mnt/testdir

  # Create a symlink inside the directory and then rename the symlink.
  $ ln -s /mnt/testdir/foo /mnt/testdir/bar
  $ mv /mnt/testdir/bar /mnt/testdir/baz

  # Now fsync again the directory, this persist the log tree.
  $ xfs_io -c "fsync" /mnt/testdir

  <power failure>

  $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt
  $ stat -c %s /mnt/testdir/baz
  0
  $ readlink /mnt/testdir/baz
  $

Fix this by always logging symlinks in full mode (LOG_INODE_ALL), so that
their content is also logged.

A test case for fstests will follow.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>