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<title>Merge branch 'entropy'</title>
<updated>2019-09-30T02:25:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-30T02:25:39+00:00</published>
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Merge active entropy generation updates.

This is admittedly partly "for discussion".  We need to have a way
forward for the boot time deadlocks where user space ends up waiting for
more entropy, but no entropy is forthcoming because the system is
entirely idle just waiting for something to happen.

While this was triggered by what is arguably a user space bug with
GDM/gnome-session asking for secure randomness during early boot, when
they didn't even need any such truly secure thing, the issue ends up
being that our "getrandom()" interface is prone to that kind of
confusion, because people don't think very hard about whether they want
to block for sufficient amounts of entropy.

The approach here-in is to decide to not just passively wait for entropy
to happen, but to start actively collecting it if it is missing.  This
is not necessarily always possible, but if the architecture has a CPU
cycle counter, there is a fair amount of noise in the exact timings of
reasonably complex loads.

We may end up tweaking the load and the entropy estimates, but this
should be at least a reasonable starting point.

As part of this, we also revert the revert of the ext4 IO pattern
improvement that ended up triggering the reported lack of external
entropy.

* getrandom() active entropy waiting:
  Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug""
  random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
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Merge active entropy generation updates.

This is admittedly partly "for discussion".  We need to have a way
forward for the boot time deadlocks where user space ends up waiting for
more entropy, but no entropy is forthcoming because the system is
entirely idle just waiting for something to happen.

While this was triggered by what is arguably a user space bug with
GDM/gnome-session asking for secure randomness during early boot, when
they didn't even need any such truly secure thing, the issue ends up
being that our "getrandom()" interface is prone to that kind of
confusion, because people don't think very hard about whether they want
to block for sufficient amounts of entropy.

The approach here-in is to decide to not just passively wait for entropy
to happen, but to start actively collecting it if it is missing.  This
is not necessarily always possible, but if the architecture has a CPU
cycle counter, there is a fair amount of noise in the exact timings of
reasonably complex loads.

We may end up tweaking the load and the entropy estimates, but this
should be at least a reasonable starting point.

As part of this, we also revert the revert of the ext4 IO pattern
improvement that ended up triggering the reported lack of external
entropy.

* getrandom() active entropy waiting:
  Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug""
  random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug""</title>
<updated>2019-09-30T00:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-30T00:59:23+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 72dbcf72156641fde4d8ea401e977341bfd35a05.

Instead of waiting forever for entropy that may just not happen, we now
try to actively generate entropy when required, and are thus hopefully
avoiding the problem that caused the nice ext4 IO pattern fix to be
reverted.

So revert the revert.

Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov &lt;patrakov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 72dbcf72156641fde4d8ea401e977341bfd35a05.

Instead of waiting forever for entropy that may just not happen, we now
try to actively generate entropy when required, and are thus hopefully
avoiding the problem that caused the nice ext4 IO pattern fix to be
reverted.

So revert the revert.

Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov &lt;patrakov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2019-09-21T20:37:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-21T20:37:39+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information
  about the state of the extent status cache.

  Dropped workaround for pre-1970 dates which were encoded incorrectly
  in pre-4.4 kernels. Since both the kernel correctly generates, and
  e2fsck detects and fixes this issue for the past four years, it'e time
  to drop the workaround. (Also, it's not like files with dates in the
  distant past were all that common in the first place.)

  A lot of miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups, including some ext4
  Documentation fixes. Also included are two minor bug fixes in
  fs/unicode"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (21 commits)
  unicode: make array 'token' static const, makes object smaller
  unicode: Move static keyword to the front of declarations
  ext4: add missing bigalloc documentation.
  ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag
  ext4: fix integer overflow when calculating commit interval
  ext4: use percpu_counters for extent_status cache hits/misses
  ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity
  jbd2: add missing tracepoint for reserved handle
  ext4: fix punch hole for inline_data file systems
  ext4: rework reserved cluster accounting when invalidating pages
  ext4: documentation fixes
  ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data
  ext4: fix warning inside ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio
  ext4: set error return correctly when ext4_htree_store_dirent fails
  ext4: drop legacy pre-1970 encoding workaround
  ext4: add new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GET_ES_CACHE
  ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE
  ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE
  jbd2: flush_descriptor(): Do not decrease buffer head's ref count
  ext4: remove unnecessary error check
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information
  about the state of the extent status cache.

  Dropped workaround for pre-1970 dates which were encoded incorrectly
  in pre-4.4 kernels. Since both the kernel correctly generates, and
  e2fsck detects and fixes this issue for the past four years, it'e time
  to drop the workaround. (Also, it's not like files with dates in the
  distant past were all that common in the first place.)

  A lot of miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups, including some ext4
  Documentation fixes. Also included are two minor bug fixes in
  fs/unicode"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (21 commits)
  unicode: make array 'token' static const, makes object smaller
  unicode: Move static keyword to the front of declarations
  ext4: add missing bigalloc documentation.
  ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag
  ext4: fix integer overflow when calculating commit interval
  ext4: use percpu_counters for extent_status cache hits/misses
  ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity
  jbd2: add missing tracepoint for reserved handle
  ext4: fix punch hole for inline_data file systems
  ext4: rework reserved cluster accounting when invalidating pages
  ext4: documentation fixes
  ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data
  ext4: fix warning inside ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio
  ext4: set error return correctly when ext4_htree_store_dirent fails
  ext4: drop legacy pre-1970 encoding workaround
  ext4: add new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GET_ES_CACHE
  ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE
  ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE
  jbd2: flush_descriptor(): Do not decrease buffer head's ref count
  ext4: remove unnecessary error check
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt</title>
<updated>2019-09-18T23:59:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-18T23:59:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f60c55a94e1d127186566f06294f2dadd966e9b4'/>
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Pull fs-verity support from Eric Biggers:
 "fs-verity is a filesystem feature that provides Merkle tree based
  hashing (similar to dm-verity) for individual readonly files, mainly
  for the purpose of efficient authenticity verification.

  This pull request includes:

   (a) The fs/verity/ support layer and documentation.

   (b) fs-verity support for ext4 and f2fs.

  Compared to the original fs-verity patchset from last year, the UAPI
  to enable fs-verity on a file has been greatly simplified. Lots of
  other things were cleaned up too.

  fs-verity is planned to be used by two different projects on Android;
  most of the userspace code is in place already. Another userspace tool
  ("fsverity-utils"), and xfstests, are also available. e2fsprogs and
  f2fs-tools already have fs-verity support. Other people have shown
  interest in using fs-verity too.

  I've tested this on ext4 and f2fs with xfstests, both the existing
  tests and the new fs-verity tests. This has also been in linux-next
  since July 30 with no reported issues except a couple minor ones I
  found myself and folded in fixes for.

  Ted and I will be co-maintaining fs-verity"

* tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
  f2fs: add fs-verity support
  ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity
  ext4: add fs-verity read support
  ext4: add basic fs-verity support
  fs-verity: support builtin file signatures
  fs-verity: add SHA-512 support
  fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl
  fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl
  fs-verity: add data verification hooks for -&gt;readpages()
  fs-verity: add the hook for file -&gt;setattr()
  fs-verity: add the hook for file -&gt;open()
  fs-verity: add inode and superblock fields
  fs-verity: add Kconfig and the helper functions for hashing
  fs: uapi: define verity bit for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
  fs-verity: add UAPI header
  fs-verity: add MAINTAINERS file entry
  fs-verity: add a documentation file
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Pull fs-verity support from Eric Biggers:
 "fs-verity is a filesystem feature that provides Merkle tree based
  hashing (similar to dm-verity) for individual readonly files, mainly
  for the purpose of efficient authenticity verification.

  This pull request includes:

   (a) The fs/verity/ support layer and documentation.

   (b) fs-verity support for ext4 and f2fs.

  Compared to the original fs-verity patchset from last year, the UAPI
  to enable fs-verity on a file has been greatly simplified. Lots of
  other things were cleaned up too.

  fs-verity is planned to be used by two different projects on Android;
  most of the userspace code is in place already. Another userspace tool
  ("fsverity-utils"), and xfstests, are also available. e2fsprogs and
  f2fs-tools already have fs-verity support. Other people have shown
  interest in using fs-verity too.

  I've tested this on ext4 and f2fs with xfstests, both the existing
  tests and the new fs-verity tests. This has also been in linux-next
  since July 30 with no reported issues except a couple minor ones I
  found myself and folded in fixes for.

  Ted and I will be co-maintaining fs-verity"

* tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
  f2fs: add fs-verity support
  ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity
  ext4: add fs-verity read support
  ext4: add basic fs-verity support
  fs-verity: support builtin file signatures
  fs-verity: add SHA-512 support
  fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl
  fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl
  fs-verity: add data verification hooks for -&gt;readpages()
  fs-verity: add the hook for file -&gt;setattr()
  fs-verity: add the hook for file -&gt;open()
  fs-verity: add inode and superblock fields
  fs-verity: add Kconfig and the helper functions for hashing
  fs: uapi: define verity bit for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
  fs-verity: add UAPI header
  fs-verity: add MAINTAINERS file entry
  fs-verity: add a documentation file
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"</title>
<updated>2019-09-15T19:32:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-15T19:32:03+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit b03755ad6f33b7b8cd7312a3596a2dbf496de6e7.

This is sad, and done for all the wrong reasons.  Because that commit is
good, and does exactly what it says: avoids a lot of small disk requests
for the inode table read-ahead.

However, it turns out that it causes an entirely unrelated problem: the
getrandom() system call was introduced back in 2014 by commit
c6e9d6f38894 ("random: introduce getrandom(2) system call"), and people
use it as a convenient source of good random numbers.

But part of the current semantics for getrandom() is that it waits for
the entropy pool to fill at least partially (unlike /dev/urandom).  And
at least ArchLinux apparently has a systemd that uses getrandom() at
boot time, and the improvements in IO patterns means that existing
installations suddenly start hanging, waiting for entropy that will
never happen.

It seems to be an unlucky combination of not _quite_ enough entropy,
together with a particular systemd version and configuration.  Lennart
says that the systemd-random-seed process (which is what does this early
access) is supposed to not block any other boot activity, but sadly that
doesn't actually seem to be the case (possibly due bogus dependencies on
cryptsetup for encrypted swapspace).

The correct fix is to fix getrandom() to not block when it's not
appropriate, but that fix is going to take a lot more discussion.  Do we
just make it act like /dev/urandom by default, and add a new flag for
"wait for entropy"? Do we add a boot-time option? Or do we just limit
the amount of time it will wait for entropy?

So in the meantime, we do the revert to give us time to discuss the
eventual fix for the fundamental problem, at which point we can re-apply
the ext4 inode table access optimization.

Reported-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov &lt;patrakov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit b03755ad6f33b7b8cd7312a3596a2dbf496de6e7.

This is sad, and done for all the wrong reasons.  Because that commit is
good, and does exactly what it says: avoids a lot of small disk requests
for the inode table read-ahead.

However, it turns out that it causes an entirely unrelated problem: the
getrandom() system call was introduced back in 2014 by commit
c6e9d6f38894 ("random: introduce getrandom(2) system call"), and people
use it as a convenient source of good random numbers.

But part of the current semantics for getrandom() is that it waits for
the entropy pool to fill at least partially (unlike /dev/urandom).  And
at least ArchLinux apparently has a systemd that uses getrandom() at
boot time, and the improvements in IO patterns means that existing
installations suddenly start hanging, waiting for entropy that will
never happen.

It seems to be an unlucky combination of not _quite_ enough entropy,
together with a particular systemd version and configuration.  Lennart
says that the systemd-random-seed process (which is what does this early
access) is supposed to not block any other boot activity, but sadly that
doesn't actually seem to be the case (possibly due bogus dependencies on
cryptsetup for encrypted swapspace).

The correct fix is to fix getrandom() to not block when it's not
appropriate, but that fix is going to take a lot more discussion.  Do we
just make it act like /dev/urandom by default, and add a new flag for
"wait for entropy"? Do we add a boot-time option? Or do we just limit
the amount of time it will wait for entropy?

So in the meantime, we do the revert to give us time to discuss the
eventual fix for the fundamental problem, at which point we can re-apply
the ext4 inode table access optimization.

Reported-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov &lt;patrakov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag</title>
<updated>2019-09-03T05:43:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-03T05:43:17+00:00</published>
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If an directory has the a casefold flag set without the casefold
feature set, s_encoding will not be initialized, and this will cause
the kernel to dereference a NULL pointer.  In addition to adding
checks to avoid these kernel oops, attempts to load inodes with the
casefold flag when the casefold feature is not enable will cause the
file system to be declared corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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If an directory has the a casefold flag set without the casefold
feature set, s_encoding will not be initialized, and this will cause
the kernel to dereference a NULL pointer.  In addition to adding
checks to avoid these kernel oops, attempts to load inodes with the
casefold flag when the casefold feature is not enable will cause the
file system to be declared corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix punch hole for inline_data file systems</title>
<updated>2019-08-24T02:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-24T02:38:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c1e8220bd316d8ae8e524df39534b8a412a45d5e'/>
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If a program attempts to punch a hole on an inline data file, we need
to convert it to a normal file first.

This was detected using ext4/032 using the adv configuration.  Simple
reproducer:

mke2fs -Fq -t ext4 -O inline_data /dev/vdc
mount /vdc
echo "" &gt; /vdc/testfile
xfs_io -c 'truncate 33554432' /vdc/testfile
xfs_io -c 'fpunch 0 1048576' /vdc/testfile
umount /vdc
e2fsck -fy /dev/vdc

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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If a program attempts to punch a hole on an inline data file, we need
to convert it to a normal file first.

This was detected using ext4/032 using the adv configuration.  Simple
reproducer:

mke2fs -Fq -t ext4 -O inline_data /dev/vdc
mount /vdc
echo "" &gt; /vdc/testfile
xfs_io -c 'truncate 33554432' /vdc/testfile
xfs_io -c 'fpunch 0 1048576' /vdc/testfile
umount /vdc
e2fsck -fy /dev/vdc

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: rework reserved cluster accounting when invalidating pages</title>
<updated>2019-08-23T03:22:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Whitney</name>
<email>enwlinux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-23T03:22:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8fcc3a580651cceb94a9f48e1914491400d5146b'/>
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The goal of this patch is to remove two references to the buffer delay
bit in ext4_da_page_release_reservation() as part of a larger effort
to remove all such references from ext4.  These two references are
principally used to reduce the reserved block/cluster count when pages
are invalidated as a result of truncating, punching holes, or
collapsing a block range in a file.  The entire function is removed
and replaced with code in ext4_es_remove_extent() that reduces the
reserved count as a side effect of removing a block range from delayed
and not unwritten extents in the extent status tree as is done when
truncating, punching holes, or collapsing ranges.

The code is written to minimize the number of searches descending from
rb tree roots for scalability.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The goal of this patch is to remove two references to the buffer delay
bit in ext4_da_page_release_reservation() as part of a larger effort
to remove all such references from ext4.  These two references are
principally used to reduce the reserved block/cluster count when pages
are invalidated as a result of truncating, punching holes, or
collapsing a block range in a file.  The entire function is removed
and replaced with code in ext4_es_remove_extent() that reduces the
reserved count as a side effect of removing a block range from delayed
and not unwritten extents in the extent status tree as is done when
truncating, punching holes, or collapsing ranges.

The code is written to minimize the number of searches descending from
rb tree roots for scalability.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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<title>ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data</title>
<updated>2019-08-23T03:00:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>ZhangXiaoxu</name>
<email>zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com</email>
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<published>2019-08-23T03:00:32+00:00</published>
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I got some errors when I repair an ext4 volume which stacked by an
iscsi target:
    Entry 'test60' in / (2) has deleted/unused inode 73750.  Clear?
It can be reproduced when the network not good enough.

When I debug this I found ext4 will read entry buffer from disk and
the buffer is marked with write_io_error.

If the buffer is marked with write_io_error, it means it already
wroten to journal, and not checked out to disk. IOW, the journal
is newer than the data in disk.
If this journal record 'delete test60', it means the 'test60' still
on the disk metadata.

In this case, if we read the buffer from disk successfully and create
file continue, the new journal record will overwrite the journal
which record 'delete test60', then the entry corruptioned.

So, use the buffer rather than read from disk if the buffer is marked
with write_io_error.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaoxu &lt;zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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I got some errors when I repair an ext4 volume which stacked by an
iscsi target:
    Entry 'test60' in / (2) has deleted/unused inode 73750.  Clear?
It can be reproduced when the network not good enough.

When I debug this I found ext4 will read entry buffer from disk and
the buffer is marked with write_io_error.

If the buffer is marked with write_io_error, it means it already
wroten to journal, and not checked out to disk. IOW, the journal
is newer than the data in disk.
If this journal record 'delete test60', it means the 'test60' still
on the disk metadata.

In this case, if we read the buffer from disk successfully and create
file continue, the new journal record will overwrite the journal
which record 'delete test60', then the entry corruptioned.

So, use the buffer rather than read from disk if the buffer is marked
with write_io_error.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaoxu &lt;zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: add fs-verity read support</title>
<updated>2019-08-13T02:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-22T16:26:24+00:00</published>
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Make ext4_mpage_readpages() verify data as it is read from fs-verity
files, using the helper functions from fs/verity/.

To support both encryption and verity simultaneously, this required
refactoring the decryption workflow into a generic "post-read
processing" workflow which can do decryption, verification, or both.

The case where the ext4 block size is not equal to the PAGE_SIZE is not
supported yet, since in that case ext4_mpage_readpages() sometimes falls
back to block_read_full_page(), which does not support fs-verity yet.

Co-developed-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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Make ext4_mpage_readpages() verify data as it is read from fs-verity
files, using the helper functions from fs/verity/.

To support both encryption and verity simultaneously, this required
refactoring the decryption workflow into a generic "post-read
processing" workflow which can do decryption, verification, or both.

The case where the ext4 block size is not equal to the PAGE_SIZE is not
supported yet, since in that case ext4_mpage_readpages() sometimes falls
back to block_read_full_page(), which does not support fs-verity yet.

Co-developed-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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