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<title>xfs: prevent a UAF when log IO errors race with unmount</title>
<updated>2022-07-01T16:09:52+00:00</updated>
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<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
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KASAN reported the following use after free bug when running
generic/475:

 XFS (dm-0): Mounting V5 Filesystem
 XFS (dm-0): Starting recovery (logdev: internal)
 XFS (dm-0): Ending recovery (logdev: internal)
 Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 20639616, async page read
 Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 20639617, async page read
 XFS (dm-0): log I/O error -5
 XFS (dm-0): Filesystem has been shut down due to log error (0x2).
 XFS (dm-0): Unmounting Filesystem
 XFS (dm-0): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s).
 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock+0x246/0x270
 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888109dd84c4 by task 3:1H/136

 CPU: 3 PID: 136 Comm: 3:1H Not tainted 5.19.0-rc4-xfsx #rc4 8e53ab5ad0fddeb31cee5e7063ff9c361915a9c4
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
 Workqueue: xfs-log/dm-0 xlog_ioend_work [xfs]
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
  print_report.cold+0x2b8/0x661
  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x246/0x270
  kasan_report+0xab/0x120
  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x246/0x270
  do_raw_spin_lock+0x246/0x270
  ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
  xlog_force_shutdown+0xf6/0x370 [xfs 4ad76ae0d6add7e8183a553e624c31e9ed567318]
  xlog_ioend_work+0x100/0x190 [xfs 4ad76ae0d6add7e8183a553e624c31e9ed567318]
  process_one_work+0x672/0x1040
  worker_thread+0x59b/0xec0
  ? __kthread_parkme+0xc6/0x1f0
  ? process_one_work+0x1040/0x1040
  ? process_one_work+0x1040/0x1040
  kthread+0x29e/0x340
  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

 Allocated by task 154099:
  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
  kmem_alloc+0x8d/0x2e0 [xfs]
  xlog_cil_init+0x1f/0x540 [xfs]
  xlog_alloc_log+0xd1e/0x1260 [xfs]
  xfs_log_mount+0xba/0x640 [xfs]
  xfs_mountfs+0xf2b/0x1d00 [xfs]
  xfs_fs_fill_super+0x10af/0x1910 [xfs]
  get_tree_bdev+0x383/0x670
  vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x240
  path_mount+0xdb7/0x1890
  __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
  do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

 Freed by task 154151:
  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
  kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
  ____kasan_slab_free+0x110/0x190
  slab_free_freelist_hook+0xab/0x180
  kfree+0xbc/0x310
  xlog_dealloc_log+0x1b/0x2b0 [xfs]
  xfs_unmountfs+0x119/0x200 [xfs]
  xfs_fs_put_super+0x6e/0x2e0 [xfs]
  generic_shutdown_super+0x12b/0x3a0
  kill_block_super+0x95/0xd0
  deactivate_locked_super+0x80/0x130
  cleanup_mnt+0x329/0x4d0
  task_work_run+0xc5/0x160
  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xd4/0xe0
  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

This appears to be a race between the unmount process, which frees the
CIL and waits for in-flight iclog IO; and the iclog IO completion.  When
generic/475 runs, it starts fsstress in the background, waits a few
seconds, and substitutes a dm-error device to simulate a disk falling
out of a machine.  If the fsstress encounters EIO on a pure data write,
it will exit but the filesystem will still be online.

The next thing the test does is unmount the filesystem, which tries to
clean the log, free the CIL, and wait for iclog IO completion.  If an
iclog was being written when the dm-error switch occurred, it can race
with log unmounting as follows:

Thread 1				Thread 2

					xfs_log_unmount
					xfs_log_clean
					xfs_log_quiesce
xlog_ioend_work
&lt;observe error&gt;
xlog_force_shutdown
test_and_set_bit(XLOG_IOERROR)
					xfs_log_force
					&lt;log is shut down, nop&gt;
					xfs_log_umount_write
					&lt;log is shut down, nop&gt;
					xlog_dealloc_log
					xlog_cil_destroy
					&lt;wait for iclogs&gt;
spin_lock(&amp;log-&gt;l_cilp-&gt;xc_push_lock)
&lt;KABOOM&gt;

Therefore, free the CIL after waiting for the iclogs to complete.  I
/think/ this race has existed for quite a few years now, though I don't
remember the ~2014 era logging code well enough to know if it was a real
threat then or if the actual race was exposed only more recently.

Fixes: ac983517ec59 ("xfs: don't sleep in xlog_cil_force_lsn on shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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KASAN reported the following use after free bug when running
generic/475:

 XFS (dm-0): Mounting V5 Filesystem
 XFS (dm-0): Starting recovery (logdev: internal)
 XFS (dm-0): Ending recovery (logdev: internal)
 Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 20639616, async page read
 Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 20639617, async page read
 XFS (dm-0): log I/O error -5
 XFS (dm-0): Filesystem has been shut down due to log error (0x2).
 XFS (dm-0): Unmounting Filesystem
 XFS (dm-0): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s).
 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock+0x246/0x270
 Read of size 4 at addr ffff888109dd84c4 by task 3:1H/136

 CPU: 3 PID: 136 Comm: 3:1H Not tainted 5.19.0-rc4-xfsx #rc4 8e53ab5ad0fddeb31cee5e7063ff9c361915a9c4
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
 Workqueue: xfs-log/dm-0 xlog_ioend_work [xfs]
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
  print_report.cold+0x2b8/0x661
  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x246/0x270
  kasan_report+0xab/0x120
  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x246/0x270
  do_raw_spin_lock+0x246/0x270
  ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
  xlog_force_shutdown+0xf6/0x370 [xfs 4ad76ae0d6add7e8183a553e624c31e9ed567318]
  xlog_ioend_work+0x100/0x190 [xfs 4ad76ae0d6add7e8183a553e624c31e9ed567318]
  process_one_work+0x672/0x1040
  worker_thread+0x59b/0xec0
  ? __kthread_parkme+0xc6/0x1f0
  ? process_one_work+0x1040/0x1040
  ? process_one_work+0x1040/0x1040
  kthread+0x29e/0x340
  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

 Allocated by task 154099:
  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
  __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0
  kmem_alloc+0x8d/0x2e0 [xfs]
  xlog_cil_init+0x1f/0x540 [xfs]
  xlog_alloc_log+0xd1e/0x1260 [xfs]
  xfs_log_mount+0xba/0x640 [xfs]
  xfs_mountfs+0xf2b/0x1d00 [xfs]
  xfs_fs_fill_super+0x10af/0x1910 [xfs]
  get_tree_bdev+0x383/0x670
  vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x240
  path_mount+0xdb7/0x1890
  __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
  do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x80
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

 Freed by task 154151:
  kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40
  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
  kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
  ____kasan_slab_free+0x110/0x190
  slab_free_freelist_hook+0xab/0x180
  kfree+0xbc/0x310
  xlog_dealloc_log+0x1b/0x2b0 [xfs]
  xfs_unmountfs+0x119/0x200 [xfs]
  xfs_fs_put_super+0x6e/0x2e0 [xfs]
  generic_shutdown_super+0x12b/0x3a0
  kill_block_super+0x95/0xd0
  deactivate_locked_super+0x80/0x130
  cleanup_mnt+0x329/0x4d0
  task_work_run+0xc5/0x160
  exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xd4/0xe0
  syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

This appears to be a race between the unmount process, which frees the
CIL and waits for in-flight iclog IO; and the iclog IO completion.  When
generic/475 runs, it starts fsstress in the background, waits a few
seconds, and substitutes a dm-error device to simulate a disk falling
out of a machine.  If the fsstress encounters EIO on a pure data write,
it will exit but the filesystem will still be online.

The next thing the test does is unmount the filesystem, which tries to
clean the log, free the CIL, and wait for iclog IO completion.  If an
iclog was being written when the dm-error switch occurred, it can race
with log unmounting as follows:

Thread 1				Thread 2

					xfs_log_unmount
					xfs_log_clean
					xfs_log_quiesce
xlog_ioend_work
&lt;observe error&gt;
xlog_force_shutdown
test_and_set_bit(XLOG_IOERROR)
					xfs_log_force
					&lt;log is shut down, nop&gt;
					xfs_log_umount_write
					&lt;log is shut down, nop&gt;
					xlog_dealloc_log
					xlog_cil_destroy
					&lt;wait for iclogs&gt;
spin_lock(&amp;log-&gt;l_cilp-&gt;xc_push_lock)
&lt;KABOOM&gt;

Therefore, free the CIL after waiting for the iclogs to complete.  I
/think/ this race has existed for quite a few years now, though I don't
remember the ~2014 era logging code well enough to know if it was a real
threat then or if the actual race was exposed only more recently.

Fixes: ac983517ec59 ("xfs: don't sleep in xlog_cil_force_lsn on shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>xfs: dont treat rt extents beyond EOF as eofblocks to be cleared</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T15:47:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-25T17:47:45+00:00</published>
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On a system with a realtime volume and a 28k realtime extent,
generic/491 fails because the test opens a file on a frozen filesystem
and closing it causes xfs_release -&gt; xfs_can_free_eofblocks to
mistakenly think that the the blocks of the realtime extent beyond EOF
are posteof blocks to be freed.  Realtime extents cannot be partially
unmapped, so this is pointless.  Worse yet, this triggers posteof
cleanup, which stalls on a transaction allocation, which is why the test
fails.

Teach the predicate to account for realtime extents properly.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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On a system with a realtime volume and a 28k realtime extent,
generic/491 fails because the test opens a file on a frozen filesystem
and closing it causes xfs_release -&gt; xfs_can_free_eofblocks to
mistakenly think that the the blocks of the realtime extent beyond EOF
are posteof blocks to be freed.  Realtime extents cannot be partially
unmapped, so this is pointless.  Worse yet, this triggers posteof
cleanup, which stalls on a transaction allocation, which is why the test
fails.

Teach the predicate to account for realtime extents properly.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: don't hold xattr leaf buffers across transaction rolls</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T15:47:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-25T17:01:20+00:00</published>
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Now that we've established (again!) that empty xattr leaf buffers are
ok, we no longer need to bhold them to transactions when we're creating
new leaf blocks.  Get rid of the entire mechanism, which should simplify
the xattr code quite a bit.

The original justification for using bhold here was to prevent the AIL
from trying to write the empty leaf block into the fs during the brief
time that we release the buffer lock.  The reason for /that/ was to
prevent recovery from tripping over the empty ondisk block.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that we've established (again!) that empty xattr leaf buffers are
ok, we no longer need to bhold them to transactions when we're creating
new leaf blocks.  Get rid of the entire mechanism, which should simplify
the xattr code quite a bit.

The original justification for using bhold here was to prevent the AIL
from trying to write the empty leaf block into the fs during the brief
time that we release the buffer lock.  The reason for /that/ was to
prevent recovery from tripping over the empty ondisk block.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xfs: empty xattr leaf header blocks are not corruption</title>
<updated>2022-06-29T15:47:56+00:00</updated>
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<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-24T22:01:28+00:00</published>
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TLDR: Revert commit 51e6104fdb95 ("xfs: detect empty attr leaf blocks in
xfs_attr3_leaf_verify") because it was wrong.

Every now and then we get a corruption report from the kernel or
xfs_repair about empty leaf blocks in the extended attribute structure.
We've long thought that these shouldn't be possible, but prior to 5.18
one would shake loose in the recoveryloop fstests about once a month.

A new addition to the xattr leaf block verifier in 5.19-rc1 makes this
happen every 7 minutes on my testing cloud.  I added a ton of logging to
detect any time we set the header count on an xattr leaf block to zero.
This produced the following dmesg output on generic/388:

XFS (sda4): ino 0x21fcbaf leaf 0x129bf78 hdcount==0!
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
 xfs_attr3_leaf_create+0x187/0x230
 xfs_attr_shortform_to_leaf+0xd1/0x2f0
 xfs_attr_set_iter+0x73e/0xa90
 xfs_xattri_finish_update+0x45/0x80
 xfs_attr_finish_item+0x1b/0xd0
 xfs_defer_finish_noroll+0x19c/0x770
 __xfs_trans_commit+0x153/0x3e0
 xfs_attr_set+0x36b/0x740
 xfs_xattr_set+0x89/0xd0
 __vfs_setxattr+0x67/0x80
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x6e/0x120
 vfs_setxattr+0x97/0x180
 setxattr+0x88/0xa0
 path_setxattr+0xc3/0xe0
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0x27/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

So now we know that someone is creating empty xattr leaf blocks as part
of converting a sf xattr structure into a leaf xattr structure.  The
conversion routine logs any existing sf attributes in the same
transaction that creates the leaf block, so we know this is a setxattr
to a file that has no attributes at all.

Next, g/388 calls the shutdown ioctl and cycles the mount to trigger log
recovery.  I also augmented buffer item recovery to call -&gt;verify_struct
on any attr leaf blocks and complain if it finds a failure:

XFS (sda4): Unmounting Filesystem
XFS (sda4): Mounting V5 Filesystem
XFS (sda4): Starting recovery (logdev: internal)
XFS (sda4): xattr leaf daddr 0x129bf78 hdrcount == 0!
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
 xfs_attr3_leaf_verify+0x3b8/0x420
 xlog_recover_buf_commit_pass2+0x60a/0x6c0
 xlog_recover_items_pass2+0x4e/0xc0
 xlog_recover_commit_trans+0x33c/0x350
 xlog_recovery_process_trans+0xa5/0xe0
 xlog_recover_process_data+0x8d/0x140
 xlog_do_recovery_pass+0x19b/0x720
 xlog_do_log_recovery+0x62/0xc0
 xlog_do_recover+0x33/0x1d0
 xlog_recover+0xda/0x190
 xfs_log_mount+0x14c/0x360
 xfs_mountfs+0x517/0xa60
 xfs_fs_fill_super+0x6bc/0x950
 get_tree_bdev+0x175/0x280
 vfs_get_tree+0x1a/0x80
 path_mount+0x6f5/0xaa0
 __x64_sys_mount+0x103/0x140
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7fc61e241eae

And a moment later, the _delwri_submit of the recovered buffers trips
the same verifier and recovery fails:

XFS (sda4): Metadata corruption detected at xfs_attr3_leaf_verify+0x393/0x420 [xfs], xfs_attr3_leaf block 0x129bf78
XFS (sda4): Unmount and run xfs_repair
XFS (sda4): First 128 bytes of corrupted metadata buffer:
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b ee 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........;.......
00000010: 00 00 00 00 01 29 bf 78 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .....).x........
00000020: a5 1b d0 02 b2 9a 49 df 8e 9c fb 8d f8 31 3e 9d  ......I......1&gt;.
00000030: 00 00 00 00 02 1f cb af 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00  ................
00000040: 00 50 0f b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .P..............
00000050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
00000060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
00000070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
XFS (sda4): Corruption of in-memory data (0x8) detected at _xfs_buf_ioapply+0x37f/0x3b0 [xfs] (fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c:1518).  Shutting down filesystem.
XFS (sda4): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)
XFS (sda4): log mount/recovery failed: error -117
XFS (sda4): log mount failed

I think I see what's going on here -- setxattr is racing with something
that shuts down the filesystem:

Thread 1				Thread 2
--------				--------
xfs_attr_sf_addname
xfs_attr_shortform_to_leaf
&lt;create empty leaf&gt;
xfs_trans_bhold(leaf)
xattri_dela_state = XFS_DAS_LEAF_ADD
&lt;roll transaction&gt;
					&lt;flush log&gt;
					&lt;shut down filesystem&gt;
xfs_trans_bhold_release(leaf)
&lt;discover fs is dead, bail&gt;

Thread 3
--------
&lt;cycle mount, start recovery&gt;
xlog_recover_buf_commit_pass2
xlog_recover_do_reg_buffer
&lt;replay empty leaf buffer from recovered buf item&gt;
xfs_buf_delwri_queue(leaf)
xfs_buf_delwri_submit
_xfs_buf_ioapply(leaf)
xfs_attr3_leaf_write_verify
&lt;trip over empty leaf buffer&gt;
&lt;fail recovery&gt;

As you can see, the bhold keeps the leaf buffer locked and thus prevents
the *AIL* from tripping over the ichdr.count==0 check in the write
verifier.  Unfortunately, it doesn't prevent the log from getting
flushed to disk, which sets up log recovery to fail.

So.  It's clear that the kernel has always had the ability to persist
attr leaf blocks with ichdr.count==0, which means that it's part of the
ondisk format now.

Unfortunately, this check has been added and removed multiple times
throughout history.  It first appeared in[1] kernel 3.10 as part of the
early V5 format patches.  The check was later discovered to break log
recovery and hence disabled[2] during log recovery in kernel 4.10.
Simultaneously, the check was added[3] to xfs_repair 4.9.0 to try to
weed out the empty leaf blocks.  This was still not correct because log
recovery would recover an empty attr leaf block successfully only for
regular xattr operations to trip over the empty block during of the
block during regular operation.  Therefore, the check was removed
entirely[4] in kernel 5.7 but removal of the xfs_repair check was
forgotten.  The continued complaints from xfs_repair lead to us
mistakenly re-adding[5] the verifier check for kernel 5.19.  Remove it
once again.

[1] 517c22207b04 ("xfs: add CRCs to attr leaf blocks")
[2] 2e1d23370e75 ("xfs: ignore leaf attr ichdr.count in verifier
                   during log replay")
[3] f7140161 ("xfs_repair: junk leaf attribute if count == 0")
[4] f28cef9e4dac ("xfs: don't fail verifier on empty attr3 leaf
                   block")
[5] 51e6104fdb95 ("xfs: detect empty attr leaf blocks in
                   xfs_attr3_leaf_verify")

Looking at the rest of the xattr code, it seems that files with empty
leaf blocks behave as expected -- listxattr reports no attributes;
getxattr on any xattr returns nothing as expected; removexattr does
nothing; and setxattr can add attributes just fine.

Original-bug: 517c22207b04 ("xfs: add CRCs to attr leaf blocks")
Still-not-fixed-by: 2e1d23370e75 ("xfs: ignore leaf attr ichdr.count in verifier during log replay")
Removed-in: f28cef9e4dac ("xfs: don't fail verifier on empty attr3 leaf block")
Fixes: 51e6104fdb95 ("xfs: detect empty attr leaf blocks in xfs_attr3_leaf_verify")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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TLDR: Revert commit 51e6104fdb95 ("xfs: detect empty attr leaf blocks in
xfs_attr3_leaf_verify") because it was wrong.

Every now and then we get a corruption report from the kernel or
xfs_repair about empty leaf blocks in the extended attribute structure.
We've long thought that these shouldn't be possible, but prior to 5.18
one would shake loose in the recoveryloop fstests about once a month.

A new addition to the xattr leaf block verifier in 5.19-rc1 makes this
happen every 7 minutes on my testing cloud.  I added a ton of logging to
detect any time we set the header count on an xattr leaf block to zero.
This produced the following dmesg output on generic/388:

XFS (sda4): ino 0x21fcbaf leaf 0x129bf78 hdcount==0!
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
 xfs_attr3_leaf_create+0x187/0x230
 xfs_attr_shortform_to_leaf+0xd1/0x2f0
 xfs_attr_set_iter+0x73e/0xa90
 xfs_xattri_finish_update+0x45/0x80
 xfs_attr_finish_item+0x1b/0xd0
 xfs_defer_finish_noroll+0x19c/0x770
 __xfs_trans_commit+0x153/0x3e0
 xfs_attr_set+0x36b/0x740
 xfs_xattr_set+0x89/0xd0
 __vfs_setxattr+0x67/0x80
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x6e/0x120
 vfs_setxattr+0x97/0x180
 setxattr+0x88/0xa0
 path_setxattr+0xc3/0xe0
 __x64_sys_setxattr+0x27/0x30
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

So now we know that someone is creating empty xattr leaf blocks as part
of converting a sf xattr structure into a leaf xattr structure.  The
conversion routine logs any existing sf attributes in the same
transaction that creates the leaf block, so we know this is a setxattr
to a file that has no attributes at all.

Next, g/388 calls the shutdown ioctl and cycles the mount to trigger log
recovery.  I also augmented buffer item recovery to call -&gt;verify_struct
on any attr leaf blocks and complain if it finds a failure:

XFS (sda4): Unmounting Filesystem
XFS (sda4): Mounting V5 Filesystem
XFS (sda4): Starting recovery (logdev: internal)
XFS (sda4): xattr leaf daddr 0x129bf78 hdrcount == 0!
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44
 xfs_attr3_leaf_verify+0x3b8/0x420
 xlog_recover_buf_commit_pass2+0x60a/0x6c0
 xlog_recover_items_pass2+0x4e/0xc0
 xlog_recover_commit_trans+0x33c/0x350
 xlog_recovery_process_trans+0xa5/0xe0
 xlog_recover_process_data+0x8d/0x140
 xlog_do_recovery_pass+0x19b/0x720
 xlog_do_log_recovery+0x62/0xc0
 xlog_do_recover+0x33/0x1d0
 xlog_recover+0xda/0x190
 xfs_log_mount+0x14c/0x360
 xfs_mountfs+0x517/0xa60
 xfs_fs_fill_super+0x6bc/0x950
 get_tree_bdev+0x175/0x280
 vfs_get_tree+0x1a/0x80
 path_mount+0x6f5/0xaa0
 __x64_sys_mount+0x103/0x140
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7fc61e241eae

And a moment later, the _delwri_submit of the recovered buffers trips
the same verifier and recovery fails:

XFS (sda4): Metadata corruption detected at xfs_attr3_leaf_verify+0x393/0x420 [xfs], xfs_attr3_leaf block 0x129bf78
XFS (sda4): Unmount and run xfs_repair
XFS (sda4): First 128 bytes of corrupted metadata buffer:
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b ee 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........;.......
00000010: 00 00 00 00 01 29 bf 78 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .....).x........
00000020: a5 1b d0 02 b2 9a 49 df 8e 9c fb 8d f8 31 3e 9d  ......I......1&gt;.
00000030: 00 00 00 00 02 1f cb af 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00  ................
00000040: 00 50 0f b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .P..............
00000050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
00000060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
00000070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
XFS (sda4): Corruption of in-memory data (0x8) detected at _xfs_buf_ioapply+0x37f/0x3b0 [xfs] (fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c:1518).  Shutting down filesystem.
XFS (sda4): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)
XFS (sda4): log mount/recovery failed: error -117
XFS (sda4): log mount failed

I think I see what's going on here -- setxattr is racing with something
that shuts down the filesystem:

Thread 1				Thread 2
--------				--------
xfs_attr_sf_addname
xfs_attr_shortform_to_leaf
&lt;create empty leaf&gt;
xfs_trans_bhold(leaf)
xattri_dela_state = XFS_DAS_LEAF_ADD
&lt;roll transaction&gt;
					&lt;flush log&gt;
					&lt;shut down filesystem&gt;
xfs_trans_bhold_release(leaf)
&lt;discover fs is dead, bail&gt;

Thread 3
--------
&lt;cycle mount, start recovery&gt;
xlog_recover_buf_commit_pass2
xlog_recover_do_reg_buffer
&lt;replay empty leaf buffer from recovered buf item&gt;
xfs_buf_delwri_queue(leaf)
xfs_buf_delwri_submit
_xfs_buf_ioapply(leaf)
xfs_attr3_leaf_write_verify
&lt;trip over empty leaf buffer&gt;
&lt;fail recovery&gt;

As you can see, the bhold keeps the leaf buffer locked and thus prevents
the *AIL* from tripping over the ichdr.count==0 check in the write
verifier.  Unfortunately, it doesn't prevent the log from getting
flushed to disk, which sets up log recovery to fail.

So.  It's clear that the kernel has always had the ability to persist
attr leaf blocks with ichdr.count==0, which means that it's part of the
ondisk format now.

Unfortunately, this check has been added and removed multiple times
throughout history.  It first appeared in[1] kernel 3.10 as part of the
early V5 format patches.  The check was later discovered to break log
recovery and hence disabled[2] during log recovery in kernel 4.10.
Simultaneously, the check was added[3] to xfs_repair 4.9.0 to try to
weed out the empty leaf blocks.  This was still not correct because log
recovery would recover an empty attr leaf block successfully only for
regular xattr operations to trip over the empty block during of the
block during regular operation.  Therefore, the check was removed
entirely[4] in kernel 5.7 but removal of the xfs_repair check was
forgotten.  The continued complaints from xfs_repair lead to us
mistakenly re-adding[5] the verifier check for kernel 5.19.  Remove it
once again.

[1] 517c22207b04 ("xfs: add CRCs to attr leaf blocks")
[2] 2e1d23370e75 ("xfs: ignore leaf attr ichdr.count in verifier
                   during log replay")
[3] f7140161 ("xfs_repair: junk leaf attribute if count == 0")
[4] f28cef9e4dac ("xfs: don't fail verifier on empty attr3 leaf
                   block")
[5] 51e6104fdb95 ("xfs: detect empty attr leaf blocks in
                   xfs_attr3_leaf_verify")

Looking at the rest of the xattr code, it seems that files with empty
leaf blocks behave as expected -- listxattr reports no attributes;
getxattr on any xattr returns nothing as expected; removexattr does
nothing; and setxattr can add attributes just fine.

Original-bug: 517c22207b04 ("xfs: add CRCs to attr leaf blocks")
Still-not-fixed-by: 2e1d23370e75 ("xfs: ignore leaf attr ichdr.count in verifier during log replay")
Removed-in: f28cef9e4dac ("xfs: don't fail verifier on empty attr3 leaf block")
Fixes: 51e6104fdb95 ("xfs: detect empty attr leaf blocks in xfs_attr3_leaf_verify")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: clean up the end of xfs_attri_item_recover</title>
<updated>2022-06-26T21:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-23T16:26:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f94e08b602d45ec8ea69fb0aa1c85b712a6a4558'/>
<id>f94e08b602d45ec8ea69fb0aa1c85b712a6a4558</id>
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The end of this function could use some cleanup -- the EAGAIN
conditionals make it harder to figure out what's going on with the
disposal of xattri_leaf_bp, and the dual error/ret variables aren't
needed.  Turn the EAGAIN case into a separate block documenting all the
subtleties of recovering in the middle of an xattr update chain, which
makes the rest of the prologue much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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The end of this function could use some cleanup -- the EAGAIN
conditionals make it harder to figure out what's going on with the
disposal of xattri_leaf_bp, and the dual error/ret variables aren't
needed.  Turn the EAGAIN case into a separate block documenting all the
subtleties of recovering in the middle of an xattr update chain, which
makes the rest of the prologue much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: always free xattri_leaf_bp when cancelling a deferred op</title>
<updated>2022-06-26T21:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-22T23:57:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b822ea17fd15659b92cb86c48d018c9e43d0fd98'/>
<id>b822ea17fd15659b92cb86c48d018c9e43d0fd98</id>
<content type='text'>
While running the following fstest with logged xattrs DISabled, I
noticed the following:

# FSSTRESS_AVOID="-z -f unlink=1 -f rmdir=1 -f creat=2 -f mkdir=2 -f
getfattr=3 -f listfattr=3 -f attr_remove=4 -f removefattr=4 -f
setfattr=20 -f attr_set=60" ./check generic/475

INFO: task u9:1:40 blocked for more than 61 seconds.
      Tainted: G           O      5.19.0-rc2-djwx #rc2
"echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:u9:1            state:D stack:12872 pid:   40 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: xfs-cil/dm-0 xlog_cil_push_work [xfs]
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 __schedule+0x2db/0x1110
 schedule+0x58/0xc0
 schedule_timeout+0x115/0x160
 __down_common+0x126/0x210
 down+0x54/0x70
 xfs_buf_lock+0x2d/0xe0 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 xfs_buf_item_unpin+0x227/0x3a0 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 xfs_trans_committed_bulk+0x18e/0x320 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 xlog_cil_committed+0x2ea/0x360 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 xlog_cil_push_work+0x60f/0x690 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 process_one_work+0x1df/0x3c0
 worker_thread+0x53/0x3b0
 kthread+0xea/0x110
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

This appears to be the result of shortform_to_leaf creating a new leaf
buffer as part of adding an xattr to a file.  The new leaf buffer is
held and attached to the xfs_attr_intent structure, but then the
filesystem shuts down.  Instead of the usual path (which adds the attr
to the held leaf buffer which releases the hold), we instead cancel the
entire deferred operation.

Unfortunately, xfs_attr_cancel_item doesn't release any attached leaf
buffers, so we leak the locked buffer.  The CIL cannot do anything
about that, and hangs.  Fix this by teaching it to release leaf buffers,
and make XFS a little more careful about not leaving a dangling
reference.

The prologue of xfs_attri_item_recover is (in this author's opinion) a
little hard to figure out, so I'll clean that up in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
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While running the following fstest with logged xattrs DISabled, I
noticed the following:

# FSSTRESS_AVOID="-z -f unlink=1 -f rmdir=1 -f creat=2 -f mkdir=2 -f
getfattr=3 -f listfattr=3 -f attr_remove=4 -f removefattr=4 -f
setfattr=20 -f attr_set=60" ./check generic/475

INFO: task u9:1:40 blocked for more than 61 seconds.
      Tainted: G           O      5.19.0-rc2-djwx #rc2
"echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
task:u9:1            state:D stack:12872 pid:   40 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
Workqueue: xfs-cil/dm-0 xlog_cil_push_work [xfs]
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 __schedule+0x2db/0x1110
 schedule+0x58/0xc0
 schedule_timeout+0x115/0x160
 __down_common+0x126/0x210
 down+0x54/0x70
 xfs_buf_lock+0x2d/0xe0 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 xfs_buf_item_unpin+0x227/0x3a0 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 xfs_trans_committed_bulk+0x18e/0x320 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 xlog_cil_committed+0x2ea/0x360 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 xlog_cil_push_work+0x60f/0x690 [xfs 0532c1cb1d67dd81d15cb79ac6e415c8dec58f73]
 process_one_work+0x1df/0x3c0
 worker_thread+0x53/0x3b0
 kthread+0xea/0x110
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

This appears to be the result of shortform_to_leaf creating a new leaf
buffer as part of adding an xattr to a file.  The new leaf buffer is
held and attached to the xfs_attr_intent structure, but then the
filesystem shuts down.  Instead of the usual path (which adds the attr
to the held leaf buffer which releases the hold), we instead cancel the
entire deferred operation.

Unfortunately, xfs_attr_cancel_item doesn't release any attached leaf
buffers, so we leak the locked buffer.  The CIL cannot do anything
about that, and hangs.  Fix this by teaching it to release leaf buffers,
and make XFS a little more careful about not leaving a dangling
reference.

The prologue of xfs_attri_item_recover is (in this author's opinion) a
little hard to figure out, so I'll clean that up in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: use invalidate_lock to check the state of mmap_lock</title>
<updated>2022-06-26T21:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kaixu Xia</name>
<email>kaixuxia@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-19T21:53:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=82af88063961da9425924d9aec3fb67a4ebade3e'/>
<id>82af88063961da9425924d9aec3fb67a4ebade3e</id>
<content type='text'>
We should use invalidate_lock and XFS_MMAPLOCK_SHARED to check the state
of mmap_lock rw_semaphore in xfs_isilocked(), rather than i_rwsem and
XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED.

Fixes: 2433480a7e1d ("xfs: Convert to use invalidate_lock")
Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia &lt;kaixuxia@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
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We should use invalidate_lock and XFS_MMAPLOCK_SHARED to check the state
of mmap_lock rw_semaphore in xfs_isilocked(), rather than i_rwsem and
XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED.

Fixes: 2433480a7e1d ("xfs: Convert to use invalidate_lock")
Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia &lt;kaixuxia@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: factor out the common lock flags assert</title>
<updated>2022-06-26T21:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kaixu Xia</name>
<email>kaixuxia@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-19T21:53:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ca76a761ea2497a250988fd67f12fd93524e611e'/>
<id>ca76a761ea2497a250988fd67f12fd93524e611e</id>
<content type='text'>
There are similar lock flags assert in xfs_ilock(), xfs_ilock_nowait(),
xfs_iunlock(), thus we can factor it out into a helper that is clear.

Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia &lt;kaixuxia@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
There are similar lock flags assert in xfs_ilock(), xfs_ilock_nowait(),
xfs_iunlock(), thus we can factor it out into a helper that is clear.

Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia &lt;kaixuxia@tencent.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: introduce xfs_inodegc_push()</title>
<updated>2022-06-23T20:34:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-16T14:44:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5e672cd69f0a534a445df4372141fd0d1d00901d'/>
<id>5e672cd69f0a534a445df4372141fd0d1d00901d</id>
<content type='text'>
The current blocking mechanism for pushing the inodegc queue out to
disk can result in systems becoming unusable when there is a long
running inodegc operation. This is because the statfs()
implementation currently issues a blocking flush of the inodegc
queue and a significant number of common system utilities will call
statfs() to discover something about the underlying filesystem.

This can result in userspace operations getting stuck on inodegc
progress, and when trying to remove a heavily reflinked file on slow
storage with a full journal, this can result in delays measuring in
hours.

Avoid this problem by adding "push" function that expedites the
flushing of the inodegc queue, but doesn't wait for it to complete.

Convert xfs_fs_statfs() and xfs_qm_scall_getquota() to use this
mechanism so they don't block but still ensure that queued
operations are expedited.

Fixes: ab23a7768739 ("xfs: per-cpu deferred inode inactivation queues")
Reported-by: Chris Dunlop &lt;chris@onthe.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
[djwong: fix _getquota_next to use _inodegc_push too]
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The current blocking mechanism for pushing the inodegc queue out to
disk can result in systems becoming unusable when there is a long
running inodegc operation. This is because the statfs()
implementation currently issues a blocking flush of the inodegc
queue and a significant number of common system utilities will call
statfs() to discover something about the underlying filesystem.

This can result in userspace operations getting stuck on inodegc
progress, and when trying to remove a heavily reflinked file on slow
storage with a full journal, this can result in delays measuring in
hours.

Avoid this problem by adding "push" function that expedites the
flushing of the inodegc queue, but doesn't wait for it to complete.

Convert xfs_fs_statfs() and xfs_qm_scall_getquota() to use this
mechanism so they don't block but still ensure that queued
operations are expedited.

Fixes: ab23a7768739 ("xfs: per-cpu deferred inode inactivation queues")
Reported-by: Chris Dunlop &lt;chris@onthe.net.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
[djwong: fix _getquota_next to use _inodegc_push too]
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xfs: bound maximum wait time for inodegc work</title>
<updated>2022-06-23T20:34:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-16T14:44:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7cf2b0f9611b9971d663e1fc3206eeda3b902922'/>
<id>7cf2b0f9611b9971d663e1fc3206eeda3b902922</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently inodegc work can sit queued on the per-cpu queue until
the workqueue is either flushed of the queue reaches a depth that
triggers work queuing (and later throttling). This means that we
could queue work that waits for a long time for some other event to
trigger flushing.

Hence instead of just queueing work at a specific depth, use a
delayed work that queues the work at a bound time. We can still
schedule the work immediately at a given depth, but we no long need
to worry about leaving a number of items on the list that won't get
processed until external events prevail.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently inodegc work can sit queued on the per-cpu queue until
the workqueue is either flushed of the queue reaches a depth that
triggers work queuing (and later throttling). This means that we
could queue work that waits for a long time for some other event to
trigger flushing.

Hence instead of just queueing work at a specific depth, use a
delayed work that queues the work at a bound time. We can still
schedule the work immediately at a given depth, but we no long need
to worry about leaving a number of items on the list that won't get
processed until external events prevail.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
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