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    btrfs: always log symlinks in full mode · d0e64a98
    Filipe Manana authored
    On Linux, empty symlinks are invalid, and attempting to create one with
    the system call symlink(2) results in an -ENOENT error and this is
    explicitly documented in the man page.
    
    If we rename a symlink that was created in the current transaction and its
    parent directory was logged before, we actually end up logging the symlink
    without logging its content, which is stored in an inline extent. That
    means that after a power failure we can end up with an empty symlink,
    having no content and an i_size of 0 bytes.
    
    It can be easily reproduced like this:
    
      $ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdc
      $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt
    
      $ mkdir /mnt/testdir
      $ sync
    
      # Create a file inside the directory and fsync the directory.
      $ touch /mnt/testdir/foo
      $ xfs_io -c "fsync" /mnt/testdir
    
      # Create a symlink inside the directory and then rename the symlink.
      $ ln -s /mnt/testdir/foo /mnt/testdir/bar
      $ mv /mnt/testdir/bar /mnt/testdir/baz
    
      # Now fsync again the directory, this persist the log tree.
      $ xfs_io -c "fsync" /mnt/testdir
    
      <power failure>
    
      $ mount /dev/sdc /mnt
      $ stat -c %s /mnt/testdir/baz
      0
      $ readlink /mnt/testdir/baz
      $
    
    Fix this by always logging symlinks in full mode (LOG_INODE_ALL), so that
    their content is also logged.
    
    A test case for fstests will follow.
    
    CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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