[ 099/122] ext4: use s_csum_seed instead of i_csum_seed for xattr block

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 07 2012 - 18:32:13 EST


From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

3.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 41eb70dde42b2360074a559a6f1fc49860a50179 upstream.

In xattr block operation, we use h_refcount to indicate whether the
xattr block is shared among many inodes. And xattr block csum uses
s_csum_seed if it is shared and i_csum_seed if it belongs to
one inode. But this has a problem. So consider the block is shared
first bewteen inode A and B, and B has some xattr update and CoW
the xattr block. When it updates the *old* xattr block(because
of the h_refcount change) and calls ext4_xattr_release_block, we
has no idea that inode A is the real owner of the *old* xattr
block and we can't use the i_csum_seed of inode A either in xattr
block csum calculation. And I don't think we have an easy way to
find inode A.

So this patch just removes the tricky i_csum_seed and we now uses
s_csum_seed every time for the xattr block csum. The corresponding
patch for the e2fsprogs will be sent in another patch.

This is spotted by xfstests 117.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -127,19 +127,16 @@ static __le32 ext4_xattr_block_csum(stru
struct ext4_xattr_header *hdr)
{
struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
- struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
__u32 csum, old;

old = hdr->h_checksum;
hdr->h_checksum = 0;
- if (le32_to_cpu(hdr->h_refcount) != 1) {
- block_nr = cpu_to_le64(block_nr);
- csum = ext4_chksum(sbi, sbi->s_csum_seed, (__u8 *)&block_nr,
- sizeof(block_nr));
- } else
- csum = ei->i_csum_seed;
+ block_nr = cpu_to_le64(block_nr);
+ csum = ext4_chksum(sbi, sbi->s_csum_seed, (__u8 *)&block_nr,
+ sizeof(block_nr));
csum = ext4_chksum(sbi, csum, (__u8 *)hdr,
EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE(inode->i_sb));
+
hdr->h_checksum = old;
return cpu_to_le32(csum);
}


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