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generic/642 triggered a reproducable assert failure in xlog_cil_commit() that resulted from a xfs_attr_set() committing an empty but dirty transaction. When the CIL is empty and this occurs, xlog_cil_commit() tries a background push and this triggers a "pushing an empty CIL" assert. XFS: Assertion failed: !list_empty(&cil->xc_cil), file: fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c, line: 1274 Call Trace: <TASK> xlog_cil_commit+0xa5a/0xad0 __xfs_trans_commit+0xb8/0x330 xfs_trans_commit+0x10/0x20 xfs_attr_set+0x3e2/0x4c0 xfs_xattr_set+0x8d/0xe0 __vfs_setxattr+0x6b/0x90 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x76/0x220 __vfs_setxattr_locked+0xdf/0x100 vfs_setxattr+0x94/0x170 setxattr+0x110/0x200 path_setxattr+0xbf/0xe0 __x64_sys_setxattr+0x2b/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 The problem is related to the breakdown of attribute addition in xfs_attr_set_iter() and how it is called from deferred operations. When we have a pure leaf xattr insert, we add the xattr to the leaf and set the next state to XFS_DAS_FOUND_LBLK and return -EAGAIN. This requeues the xattr defered work, rolls the transaction and runs xfs_attr_set_iter() again. This then checks the xattr for being remote (it's not) and whether a replace op is being done (this is a create op) and if neither are true it returns without having done anything. xfs_xattri_finish_update() then unconditionally sets the transaction dirty, and the deferops finishes and returns to __xfs_trans_commit() which sees the transaction dirty and tries to commit it by calling xlog_cil_commit(). The transaction is empty, and then the assert fires if this happens when the CIL is empty. This patch addresses the structure of xfs_attr_set_iter() that requires re-entry on leaf add even when nothing will be done. This gets rid of the trailing empty transaction and so doesn't trigger the XFS_TRANS_DIRTY assignment in xfs_xattri_finish_update() incorrectly. Addressing that is for a different patch. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson<allison.henderson@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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