xfs: inode recovery readahead can race with inode buffer creation
When we do inode readahead in log recovery, we do can do the readahead before we've replayed the icreate transaction that stamps the buffer with inode cores. The inode readahead verifier catches this and marks the buffer as !done to indicate that it doesn't yet contain valid inodes. In adding buffer error notification (i.e. setting b_error = -EIO at the same time as as we clear the done flag) to such a readahead verifier failure, we can then get subsequent inode recovery failing with this error: XFS (dm-0): metadata I/O error: block 0xa00060 ("xlog_recover_do..(read#2)") error 5 numblks 32 This occurs when readahead completion races with icreate item replay such as: inode readahead find buffer lock buffer submit RA io .... icreate recovery xfs_trans_get_buffer find buffer lock buffer <blocks on RA completion> ..... <ra completion> fails verifier clear XBF_DONE set bp->b_error = -EIO release and unlock buffer <icreate gains lock> icreate initialises buffer marks buffer as done adds buffer to delayed write queue releases buffer At this point, we have an initialised inode buffer that is up to date but has an -EIO state registered against it. When we finally get to recovering an inode in that buffer: inode item recovery xfs_trans_read_buffer find buffer lock buffer sees XBF_DONE is set, returns buffer sees bp->b_error is set fail log recovery! Essentially, we need xfs_trans_get_buf_map() to clear the error status of the buffer when doing a lookup. This function returns uninitialised buffers, so the buffer returned can not be in an error state and none of the code that uses this function expects b_error to be set on return. Indeed, there is an ASSERT(!bp->b_error); in the transaction case in xfs_trans_get_buf_map() that would have caught this if log recovery used transactions.... This patch firstly changes the inode readahead failure to set -EIO on the buffer, and secondly changes xfs_buf_get_map() to never return a buffer with an error state set so this first change doesn't cause unexpected log recovery failures. cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12 - current Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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