UBIFS's recovery code strictly assumes that a deleted inode will never come back, therefore it removes all data which belongs to that inode as soon it faces an inode with link count 0 in the replay list. Before O_TMPFILE this assumption was perfectly fine. With O_TMPFILE it can lead to data loss upon a power-cut.
Consider a journal with entries like: 0: inode X (nlink = 0) /* O_TMPFILE was created */ 1: data for inode X /* Someone writes to the temp file */ 2: inode X (nlink = 0) /* inode was changed, xattr, chmod, … */ 3: inode X (nlink = 1) /* inode was re-linked via linkat() */
Upon replay of entry #2 UBIFS will drop all data that belongs to inode X, this will lead to an empty file after mounting.
As solution for this problem, scan the replay list for a re-link entry before dropping data.
Fixes: 474b93704f32 ("ubifs: Implement O_TMPFILE") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Russell Senior russell@personaltelco.net Reported-by: Rafał Miłecki zajec5@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at --- Russel, Rafał,
please give this patch another testing. I'll also run it on different test systems before merging.
Thanks, //richard --- fs/ubifs/replay.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/replay.c b/fs/ubifs/replay.c index 4844538eb926..65a780685b82 100644 --- a/fs/ubifs/replay.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/replay.c @@ -209,6 +209,34 @@ static int trun_remove_range(struct ubifs_info *c, struct replay_entry *r) return ubifs_tnc_remove_range(c, &min_key, &max_key); }
+/** + * inode_relinked - check whether inode in question will be re-linked. + * @c: UBIFS file-system description object + * @rino: replay entry to test + * + * O_TMPFILE files can be re-linked, this means link count goes from 0 to 1. + * This case needs special care, otherwise all references to the inode will + * be removed upon the first replay entry of an inode with link count 0 + * is found. + */ +static bool inode_relinked(struct ubifs_info *c, struct replay_entry *rino) +{ + struct replay_entry *r = rino; + + ubifs_assert(c, rino->deletion); + ubifs_assert(c, key_type(c, &rino->key) == UBIFS_INO_KEY); + + list_for_each_entry_from(r, &c->replay_list, list) { + if (key_inum(c, &r->key) == key_inum(c, &rino->key) && + r->deletion == 0) { + ubifs_assert(c, r->sqnum > rino->sqnum); + return true; + } + } + + return false; +} + /** * apply_replay_entry - apply a replay entry to the TNC. * @c: UBIFS file-system description object @@ -236,6 +264,11 @@ static int apply_replay_entry(struct ubifs_info *c, struct replay_entry *r) { ino_t inum = key_inum(c, &r->key);
+ if (inode_relinked(c, r)) { + err = 0; + break; + } + err = ubifs_tnc_remove_ino(c, inum); break; }