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cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite loop
authorBaokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:29:25 +0000 (14:29 +0800)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Wed, 3 Jul 2024 08:36:15 +0000 (10:36 +0200)
commit0ece614a52bc9d219b839a6a29282b30d10e0c48
treec4c1920ac80f6fa5f631d742fc483632b2955a71
parent5d8f805789072ea7fd39504694b7bd17e5f751c4
cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite loop

In cachefiles_check_volume_xattr(), the error returned by vfs_getxattr()
is not passed to ret, so it ends up returning -ESTALE, which leads to an
endless loop as follows:

cachefiles_acquire_volume
retry:
  ret = cachefiles_check_volume_xattr
    ret = -ESTALE
    xlen = vfs_getxattr // return -EIO
    // The ret is not updated when xlen < 0, so -ESTALE is returned.
    return ret
  // Supposed to jump out of the loop at this judgement.
  if (ret != -ESTALE)
      goto error_dir;
  cachefiles_bury_object
    //  EIO causes rename failure
  goto retry;

Hence propagate the error returned by vfs_getxattr() to avoid the above
issue. Do the same in cachefiles_check_auxdata().

Fixes: 32e150037dce ("fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data")
Fixes: 72b957856b0c ("cachefiles: Implement metadata/coherency data storage in xattrs")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628062930.2467993-5-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/cachefiles/xattr.c