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-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr_remote.c15
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);
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