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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] btrfs: fix invalid removal of root ref" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Jan 19, 2020

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From d49d3287e74ffe55ae7430d1e795e5f9bf7359ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 17:20:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: fix invalid removal of root ref

If we have the following sequence of events

btrfs sub create A
btrfs sub create A/B
btrfs sub snap A C
mkdir C/foo
mv A/B C/foo
rm -rf *

We will end up with a transaction abort.

The reason for this is because we create a root ref for B pointing to A. When we create a snapshot of C we still have B in our tree, but because the root ref points to A and not C we will make it appear to be empty.

The problem happens when we move B into C. This removes the root ref for B pointing to A and adds a ref of B pointing to C. When we rmdir C we'll see that we have a ref to our root and remove the root ref, despite not actually matching our reference name.

Now btrfs_del_root_ref() allowing this to work is a bug as well, however we know that this inode does not actually point to a root ref in the first place, so we shouldn't be calling btrfs_del_root_ref() in the first place and instead simply look up our dir index for this item and do the rest of the removal.

CC [email protected] # 4.4+
Signed-off-by Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by David Sterba <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by David Sterba <[email protected]>
fs/btrfs/inode.c +19 -8
index 99631030d13c..c70baafb2a39 100644
@@ -4283,13 +4283,16 @@ static int btrfs_unlink_subvol(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	}
 	btrfs_release_path(path);
 
-	ret = btrfs_del_root_ref(trans, objectid, root->root_key.objectid,
-				 dir_ino, &index, name, name_len);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		if (ret != -ENOENT) {
-			btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret);
-			goto out;
-		}
+	/*
+	 * This is a placeholder inode for a subvolume we didn't have a
+	 * reference to at the time of the snapshot creation.  In the meantime
+	 * we could have renamed the real subvol link into our snapshot, so
+	 * depending on btrfs_del_root_ref to return -ENOENT here is incorret.
+	 * Instead simply lookup the dir_index_item for this entry so we can
+	 * remove it.  Otherwise we know we have a ref to the root and we can
+	 * call btrfs_del_root_ref, and it _shouldn't_ fail.
+	 */
+	if (btrfs_ino(inode) == BTRFS_EMPTY_SUBVOL_DIR_OBJECTID) {
 		di = btrfs_search_dir_index_item(root, path, dir_ino,
 						 name, name_len);
 		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(di)) {

@@ -4304,8 +4307,16 @@ static int btrfs_unlink_subvol(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 		leaf = path->nodes[0];
 		btrfs_item_key_to_cpu(leaf, &key, path->slots[0]);
 		index = key.offset;
+		btrfs_release_path(path);
+	} else {
+		ret = btrfs_del_root_ref(trans, objectid,
+					 root->root_key.objectid, dir_ino,
+					 &index, name, name_len);
+		if (ret) {
+			btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret);
+			goto out;
+		}
 	}
-	btrfs_release_path(path);
 
 	ret = btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index(trans, BTRFS_I(dir), index);
 	if (ret) {