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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/libxfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c index 2faec26962e8..dd714037c322 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c @@ -451,14 +451,21 @@ xfs_attr_rmtval_set( /* * Allocate a single extent, up to the size of the value. + * + * Note that we have to consider this a data allocation as we + * write the remote attribute without logging the contents. + * Hence we must ensure that we aren't using blocks that are on + * the busy list so that we don't overwrite blocks which have + * recently been freed but their transactions are not yet + * committed to disk. If we overwrite the contents of a busy + * extent and then crash then the block may not contain the + * correct metadata after log recovery occurs. */ xfs_bmap_init(args->flist, args->firstblock); nmap = 1; error = xfs_bmapi_write(args->trans, dp, (xfs_fileoff_t)lblkno, - blkcnt, - XFS_BMAPI_ATTRFORK | XFS_BMAPI_METADATA, - args->firstblock, args->total, &map, &nmap, - args->flist); + blkcnt, XFS_BMAPI_ATTRFORK, args->firstblock, + args->total, &map, &nmap, args->flist); if (!error) { error = xfs_bmap_finish(&args->trans, args->flist, &committed); |