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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c index 045118c7bf78..f3254a4f4cb4 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c @@ -589,6 +589,28 @@ xfs_inode_validate_extsize( inherit_flag = (flags & XFS_DIFLAG_EXTSZINHERIT); extsize_bytes = XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, extsize); + /* + * This comment describes a historic gap in this verifier function. + * + * On older kernels, the extent size hint verifier doesn't check that + * the extent size hint is an integer multiple of the realtime extent + * size on a directory with both RTINHERIT and EXTSZINHERIT flags set. + * The verifier has always enforced the alignment rule for regular + * files with the REALTIME flag set. + * + * If a directory with a misaligned extent size hint is allowed to + * propagate that hint into a new regular realtime file, the result + * is that the inode cluster buffer verifier will trigger a corruption + * shutdown the next time it is run. + * + * Unfortunately, there could be filesystems with these misconfigured + * directories in the wild, so we cannot add a check to this verifier + * at this time because that will result a new source of directory + * corruption errors when reading an existing filesystem. Instead, we + * permit the misconfiguration to pass through the verifiers so that + * callers of this function can correct and mitigate externally. + */ + if (rt_flag) blocksize_bytes = mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize << mp->m_sb.sb_blocklog; else |