Re: [PATCH] ext4: set csum seed in tmp inode while migrating to extents

[Luís Henriques]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 01:03:17PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 06-12-21 14:37:33, Luís Henriques wrote:
> > When migrating to extents, the temporary inode will have it's own checksum
> > seed.  This means that, when swapping the inodes data, the inode checksums
> > will be incorrect.
> > 
> > This can be fixed by recalculating the extents checksums again.  Or simply
> > by copying the seed into the temporary inode.
> > 
> > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213357
> > Reported-by: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks for debugging this! Two comments below:

And thanks for the review!

> > diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
> > index 7e0b4f81c6c0..dd4ece38fc83 100644
> > --- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c
> > +++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
> > @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
> >  	handle_t *handle;
> >  	int retval = 0, i;
> >  	__le32 *i_data;
> > -	struct ext4_inode_info *ei;
> > +	struct ext4_inode_info *ei, *tmp_ei;
> 
> Probably no need for the new tmp_ei variable when you use it only once...

Sure, I'll drop that new variable in v2.

> > @@ -503,6 +503,10 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	ei = EXT4_I(inode);
> > +	tmp_ei = EXT4_I(tmp_inode);
> > +	/* Use the right seed for checksumming */
> > +	tmp_ei->i_csum_seed = ei->i_csum_seed;
> > +
> 
> I think this is subtly broken in another way: If we crash in the middle of
> migration, tmp_inode (and possibly attached extent tree blocks) will have
> wrong checksums (remember that i_csum_seed is computed from inode number)
> and so orphan cleanup will fail. On the other hand in that case the orphan
> cleanup will free blocks we have already managed to attach to the tmp_inode
> although they are still properly attached to the old 'inode'. So the
> recovery from a crash in the middle of the migration seems to be broken
> anyway. So I guess what you do is an improvement. But can you perhaps:
> 
> 1) Move i_csum_seed initialization to a bit earlier in ext4_ext_migrate()
> just after we have got the tmp_inode from  ext4_new_inode()? That way all
> inode writes will at least happen with the same csum.
> 
> 2) Add a comment you are updating the csum seed so that metadata blocks get
> proper checksum for 'inode' and that recovery from a crash in the middle of
> migration is currently broken.

Obviously, I did not realize the recovery process was broken and I
appreciate you took the time to explain _how_ it is broken.  I'll add a
new item to (the bottom of) my to-do list and maybe one of these days I
get to look into it.

I'll send out v2 shortly, implementing your suggestions.

Cheers,
--
Luís

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 								Honza
> -- 
> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
> SUSE Labs, CR