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authorTahsin Erdogan2017-08-06 04:41:42 +0200
committerTheodore Ts'o2017-08-06 04:41:42 +0200
commitec00022030da5761518476096626338bd67df57a (patch)
treee6d9d86c05a0a98e625a0f0cafb1f944f3b611ac
parentext4: remove unused mode parameter (diff)
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ext4: inplace xattr block update fails to deduplicate blocks
When an xattr block has a single reference, block is updated inplace and it is reinserted to the cache. Later, a cache lookup is performed to see whether an existing block has the same contents. This cache lookup will most of the time return the just inserted entry so deduplication is not achieved. Running the following test script will produce two xattr blocks which can be observed in "File ACL: " line of debugfs output: mke2fs -b 1024 -I 128 -F -O extent /dev/sdb 1G mount /dev/sdb /mnt/sdb touch /mnt/sdb/{x,y} setfattr -n user.1 -v aaa /mnt/sdb/x setfattr -n user.2 -v bbb /mnt/sdb/x setfattr -n user.1 -v aaa /mnt/sdb/y setfattr -n user.2 -v bbb /mnt/sdb/y debugfs -R 'stat x' /dev/sdb | cat debugfs -R 'stat y' /dev/sdb | cat This patch defers the reinsertion to the cache so that we can locate other blocks with the same contents. Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/xattr.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index de217a094733..4025666c5991 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1816,9 +1816,6 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
ea_bdebug(bs->bh, "modifying in-place");
error = ext4_xattr_set_entry(i, s, handle, inode,
true /* is_block */);
- if (!error)
- ext4_xattr_block_cache_insert(ea_block_cache,
- bs->bh);
ext4_xattr_block_csum_set(inode, bs->bh);
unlock_buffer(bs->bh);
if (error == -EFSCORRUPTED)
@@ -1974,6 +1971,7 @@ inserted:
} else if (bs->bh && s->base == bs->bh->b_data) {
/* We were modifying this block in-place. */
ea_bdebug(bs->bh, "keeping this block");
+ ext4_xattr_block_cache_insert(ea_block_cache, bs->bh);
new_bh = bs->bh;
get_bh(new_bh);
} else {