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    Btrfs: fix fsync not persisting changed attributes of a directory · 60d9f503
    Filipe Manana authored
    While logging an inode we follow its ancestors and for each one we mark
    it as logged in the current transaction, even if we have not logged it.
    As a consequence if we change an attribute of an ancestor, such as the
    UID or GID for example, and then explicitly fsync it, we end up not
    logging the inode at all despite returning success to user space, which
    results in the attribute being lost if a power failure happens after
    the fsync.
    
    Sample reproducer:
    
      $ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdb
      $ mount /dev/sdb /mnt
    
      $ mkdir /mnt/dir
      $ chown 6007:6007 /mnt/dir
    
      $ sync
    
      $ chown 9003:9003 /mnt/dir
      $ touch /mnt/dir/file
      $ xfs_io -c fsync /mnt/dir/file
    
      # fsync our directory after fsync'ing the new file, should persist the
      # new values for the uid and gid.
      $ xfs_io -c fsync /mnt/dir
    
      <power failure>
    
      $ mount /dev/sdb /mnt
      $ stat -c %u:%g /mnt/dir
      6007:6007
    
        --> should be 9003:9003, the uid and gid were not persisted, despite
            the explicit fsync on the directory prior to the power failure
    
    Fix this by not updating the logged_trans field of ancestor inodes when
    logging an inode, since we have not logged them. Let only future calls to
    btrfs_log_inode() to mark inodes as logged.
    
    This could be triggered by my recent fsync fuzz tester for fstests, for
    which an fstests patch exists titled "fstests: generic, fsync fuzz tester
    with fsstress".
    
    Fixes: 12fcfd22
    
     ("Btrfs: tree logging unlink/rename fixes")
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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