xfs: only run torn log write detection on dirty logs
XFS uses CRC verification over a sub-range of the head of the log to detect and handle torn writes. This torn log write detection currently runs unconditionally at mount time, regardless of whether the log is dirty or clean. This is problematic in cases where a filesystem might end up being moved across different, incompatible (i.e., opposite byte-endianness) architectures. The problem lies in the fact that log data is not necessarily written in an architecture independent format. For example, certain bits of data are written in native endian format. Further, the size of certain log data structures differs (i.e., struct xlog_rec_header) depending on the word size of the cpu. This leads to false positive crc verification errors and ultimately failed mounts when a cleanly unmounted filesystem is mounted on a system with an incompatible architecture from data that was written near the head of the log. Update the log head/tail discovery code to run torn write detection only when the log is not clean. This means something other than an unmount record resides at the head of the log and log recovery is imminent. It is a requirement to run log recovery on the same type of host that had written the content of the dirty log and therefore CRC failures are legitimate corruptions in that scenario. Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Tested-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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