ovl: initialize OVL_UPPERDATA in ovl_lookup()
Currently ovl_get_inode() initializes OVL_UPPERDATA flag and for that it
has to call ovl_check_metacopy_xattr() and check if metacopy xattr is
present or not.
yangerkun reported sometimes underlying filesystem might return -EIO and in
that case error handling path does not cleanup properly leading to various
warnings.
Run generic/461 with ext4 upper/lower layer sometimes may trigger the bug
as below(linux 4.19):
[ 551.001349] overlayfs: failed to get metacopy (-5)
[ 551.003464] overlayfs: failed to get inode (-5)
[ 551.004243] overlayfs: cleanup of 'd44/fd51' failed (-5)
[ 551.004941] overlayfs: failed to get origin (-5)
[ 551.005199] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 551.006697] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 24674 at fs/inode.c:1528 iput+0x33b/0x400
...
[ 551.027219] Call Trace:
[ 551.027623] ovl_create_object+0x13f/0x170
[ 551.028268] ovl_create+0x27/0x30
[ 551.028799] path_openat+0x1a35/0x1ea0
[ 551.029377] do_filp_open+0xad/0x160
[ 551.029944] ? vfs_writev+0xe9/0x170
[ 551.030499] ? page_counter_try_charge+0x77/0x120
[ 551.031245] ? __alloc_fd+0x160/0x2a0
[ 551.031832] ? do_sys_open+0x189/0x340
[ 551.032417] ? get_unused_fd_flags+0x34/0x40
[ 551.033081] do_sys_open+0x189/0x340
[ 551.033632] __x64_sys_creat+0x24/0x30
[ 551.034219] do_syscall_64+0xd5/0x430
[ 551.034800] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
One solution is to improve error handling and call iget_failed() if error
is encountered. Amir thinks that this path is little intricate and there
is not real need to check and initialize OVL_UPPERDATA in ovl_get_inode().
Instead caller of ovl_get_inode() can initialize this state. And this will
avoid double checking of metacopy xattr lookup in ovl_lookup() and
ovl_get_inode().
OVL_UPPERDATA is inode flag. So I was little concerned that initializing
it outside ovl_get_inode() might have some races. But this is one way
transition. That is once a file has been fully copied up, it can't go back
to metacopy file again. And that seems to help avoid races. So as of now
I can't see any races w.r.t OVL_UPPERDATA being set wrongly. So move
settingof OVL_UPPERDATA inside the callers of ovl_get_inode().
ovl_obtain_alias() already does it. So only two callers now left are
ovl_lookup() and ovl_instantiate().
Reported-by: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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