From aab858dabd5ee4df1d8876449db2ef7868d1b5d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Foster Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 08:56:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] xfs: remove racy hasattr check from attr ops commit 5a93790d4e2df73e30c965ec6e49be82fc3ccfce upstream. xfs_attr_[get|remove]() have unlocked attribute fork checks to optimize away a lock cycle in cases where the fork does not exist or is otherwise empty. This check is not safe, however, because an attribute fork short form to extent format conversion includes a transient state that causes the xfs_inode_hasattr() check to fail. Specifically, xfs_attr_shortform_to_leaf() creates an empty extent format attribute fork and then adds the existing shortform attributes to it. This means that lookup of an existing xattr can spuriously return -ENOATTR when racing against a setxattr that causes the associated format conversion. This was originally reproduced by an untar on a particularly configured glusterfs volume, but can also be reproduced on demand with properly crafted xattr requests. The format conversion occurs under the exclusive ilock. xfs_attr_get() and xfs_attr_remove() already have the proper locking and checks further down in the functions to handle this situation correctly. Drop the unlocked checks to avoid the spurious failure and rely on the existing logic. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c index af1ecb19121e..6622d46ddec3 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c @@ -131,9 +131,6 @@ xfs_attr_get( if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount)) return -EIO; - if (!xfs_inode_hasattr(ip)) - return -ENOATTR; - error = xfs_attr_args_init(&args, ip, name, flags); if (error) return error; @@ -392,9 +389,6 @@ xfs_attr_remove( if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(dp->i_mount)) return -EIO; - if (!xfs_inode_hasattr(dp)) - return -ENOATTR; - error = xfs_attr_args_init(&args, dp, name, flags); if (error) return error; -- 2.39.5