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btrfs: tree-checker: Fix false panic for sanity test
authorQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Wed, 8 Nov 2017 00:54:24 +0000 (08:54 +0800)
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:59:09 +0000 (14:59 +0100)
commit69fc6cbbac542c349b3d350d10f6e394c253c81d
tree4c0fef143573a65892fea4f0e77974904f4ec3b6
parentebb70442cdd4872260c2415929c456be3562da82
btrfs: tree-checker: Fix false panic for sanity test

[BUG]
If we run btrfs with CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS=y, it will
instantly cause kernel panic like:

------
...
assertion failed: 0, file: fs/btrfs/disk-io.c, line: 3853
...
Call Trace:
 btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty+0x187/0x1f0 [btrfs]
 setup_items_for_insert+0x385/0x650 [btrfs]
 __btrfs_drop_extents+0x129a/0x1870 [btrfs]
...
-----

[Cause]
Btrfs will call btrfs_check_leaf() in btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty() to check
if the leaf is valid with CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS=y.

However quite some btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty() callers(*) don't really
initialize its item data but only initialize its item pointers, leaving
item data uninitialized.

This makes tree-checker catch uninitialized data as error, causing
such panic.

*: These callers include but not limited to
setup_items_for_insert()
btrfs_split_item()
btrfs_expand_item()

[Fix]
Add a new parameter @check_item_data to btrfs_check_leaf().
With @check_item_data set to false, item data check will be skipped and
fallback to old btrfs_check_leaf() behavior.

So we can still get early warning if we screw up item pointers, and
avoid false panic.

Cc: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lakshmipathi.G <lakshmipathi.g@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
fs/btrfs/tree-checker.c
fs/btrfs/tree-checker.h