[SRU][Yakkety][Xenial][PATCH 1/1] btrfs: Continue write in case of can_not_nocow

Joseph Salisbury joseph.salisbury at canonical.com
Fri May 27 18:59:00 UTC 2016


From: Zhao Lei <zhaolei at cn.fujitsu.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584052

btrfs failed in xfstests btrfs/080 with -o nodatacow.

Can be reproduced by following script:
  DEV=/dev/vdg
  MNT=/mnt/tmp

  umount $DEV &>/dev/null
  mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV
  mount -o nodatacow $DEV $MNT

  dd if=/dev/zero of=$MNT/test bs=1 count=2048 &
  btrfs subvolume snapshot -r $MNT $MNT/test_snap &
  wait
  --
  We can see dd failed on NO_SPACE.

Reason:
  __btrfs_buffered_write should run cow write when no_cow impossible,
  and current code is designed with above logic.
  But check_can_nocow() have 2 type of return value(0 and <0) on
  can_not_no_cow, and current code only continue write on first case,
  the second case happened in doing subvolume.

Fix:
  Continue write when check_can_nocow() return 0 and <0.

Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei at cn.fujitsu.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4da2e26a2a32b174878744bd0f07db180c875f26)
Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/file.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/file.c b/fs/btrfs/file.c
index 5e5db36..353f4ba 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/file.c
@@ -1526,27 +1526,24 @@ static noinline ssize_t __btrfs_buffered_write(struct file *file,
 
 		reserve_bytes = num_pages << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 
-		if (BTRFS_I(inode)->flags & (BTRFS_INODE_NODATACOW |
-					     BTRFS_INODE_PREALLOC)) {
-			ret = check_can_nocow(inode, pos, &write_bytes);
-			if (ret < 0)
-				break;
-			if (ret > 0) {
-				/*
-				 * For nodata cow case, no need to reserve
-				 * data space.
-				 */
-				only_release_metadata = true;
-				/*
-				 * our prealloc extent may be smaller than
-				 * write_bytes, so scale down.
-				 */
-				num_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(write_bytes + offset,
-							 PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
-				reserve_bytes = num_pages << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
-				goto reserve_metadata;
-			}
+		if ((BTRFS_I(inode)->flags & (BTRFS_INODE_NODATACOW |
+					      BTRFS_INODE_PREALLOC)) &&
+		    check_can_nocow(inode, pos, &write_bytes) > 0) {
+			/*
+			 * For nodata cow case, no need to reserve
+			 * data space.
+			 */
+			only_release_metadata = true;
+			/*
+			 * our prealloc extent may be smaller than
+			 * write_bytes, so scale down.
+			 */
+			num_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(write_bytes + offset,
+						 PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
+			reserve_bytes = num_pages << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+			goto reserve_metadata;
 		}
+
 		ret = btrfs_check_data_free_space(inode, pos, write_bytes);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			break;
-- 
2.7.4





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