When doing a buffered write, through one of the write family syscalls, we
look for ranges which currently don't have allocated extents and set the
'delalloc new' bit on them, so that we can report a correct number of used
blocks to the stat(2) syscall until delalloc is flushed and ordered extents
complete.
However there are a few other places where we can do a buffered write
against a range that is mapped to a hole (no extent allocated) and where
we do not set the 'new delalloc' bit. Those places are:
- Doing a memory mapped write against a hole;
- Cloning an inline extent into a hole starting at file offset 0;
- Calling btrfs_cont_expand() when the i_size of the file is not aligned
to the sector size and is located in a hole. For example when cloning
to a destination offset beyond EOF.
So after such cases, until the corresponding delalloc range is flushed and
the respective ordered extents complete, we can report an incorrect number
of blocks used through the stat(2) syscall.
In some cases we can end up reporting 0 used blocks to stat(2), which is a
particular bad value to report as it may mislead tools to think a file is
completely sparse when its i_size is not zero, making them skip reading
any data, an undesired consequence for tools such as archivers and other
backup tools, as reported a long time ago in the following thread (and
other past threads):
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-07/msg00001.html
Example reproducer:
$ cat reproducer.sh
#!/bin/bash
MNT=/mnt/sdi
DEV=/dev/sdi
mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.xfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.ext4 -F $DEV > /dev/null
# mkfs.f2fs -f $DEV > /dev/null
mount $DEV $MNT
xfs_io -f -c "truncate 64K" \
-c "mmap -w 0 64K" \
-c "mwrite -S 0xab 0 64K" \
-c "munmap" \
$MNT/foo
blocks_used=$(stat -c %b $MNT/foo)
echo "blocks used: $blocks_used"
if [ $blocks_used -eq 0 ]; then
echo "ERROR: blocks used is 0"
fi
umount $DEV
$ ./reproducer.sh
blocks used: 0
ERROR: blocks used is 0
So move the logic that decides to set the 'delalloc bit' bit into the
function btrfs_set_extent_delalloc(), since that is what we use for all
those missing cases as well as for the cases that currently work well.
This change is also preparatory work for an upcoming patch that fixes
other problems related to tracking and reporting the number of bytes used
by an inode.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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