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    btrfs: send: fix send failure of a subcase of orphan inodes · 9b8be45f
    BingJing Chang authored
    Commit 9ed0a72e ("btrfs: send: fix failures when processing inodes with
    no links") tries to fix all incremental send cases of orphan inodes the
    send operation will meet. However, there's still a bug causing the corner
    subcase fails with a ENOENT error.
    
    Here's shortened steps of that subcase:
    
      $ btrfs subvolume create vol
      $ touch vol/foo
    
      $ btrfs subvolume snapshot -r vol snap1
      $ btrfs subvolume snapshot -r vol snap2
    
      # Turn the second snapshot to RW mode and delete the file while
      # holding an open file descriptor on it
      $ btrfs property set snap2 ro false
      $ exec 73<snap2/foo
      $ rm snap2/foo
    
      # Set the second snapshot back to RO mode and do an incremental send
      # with an unusal reverse order
      $ btrfs property set snap2 ro true
      $ btrfs send -p snap2 snap1 > /dev/null
      At subvol snap1
      ERROR: send ioctl failed with -2: No such file or directory
    
    It's subcase 3 of BTRFS_COMPARE_TREE_CHANGED in the commit 9ed0a72e
    ("btrfs: send: fix failures when processing inodes with no links"). And
    it's not a common case. We still have not met it in the real world.
    Theoretically, this case can happen in a batch cascading snapshot backup.
    In cascading backups, the receive operation in the middle may cause orphan
    inodes to appear because of the open file descriptors on the snapshot files
    during receiving. And if we don't do the batch snapshot backups in their
    creation order, then we can have an inode, which is an orphan in the parent
    snapshot but refers to a file in the send snapshot. Since an orphan inode
    has no paths, the send operation will fail with a ENOENT error if it
    tries to generate a path for it.
    
    In that patch, this subcase will be treated as an inode with a new
    generation. However, when the routine tries to delete the old paths in
    the parent snapshot, the function process_all_refs() doesn't check whether
    there are paths recorded or not before it calls the function
    process_recorded_refs(). And the function process_recorded_refs() try
    to get the first path in the parent snapshot in the beginning. Since it has
    no paths in the parent snapshot, the send operation fails.
    
    To fix this, we can easily put a link count check to avoid entering the
    deletion routine like what we do a link count check to avoid creating a
    new one. Moreover, we can assume that the function process_all_refs()
    can always collect references to process because we know it has a
    positive link count.
    
    Fixes: 9ed0a72e ("btrfs: send: fix failures when processing inodes with no links")
    Reviewed-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBingJing Chang <bingjingc@synology.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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