[Cluster-devel] [gfs2-utils PATCH 11/47] fsck.gfs2: Special case '..' when processing bad formal inode number

[Bob Peterson]

In a recent patch to fsck.gfs2, we added the ability to make sure the
formal inode number in each directory entry matches the formal inode
number in the dinode. If it doesn't match, fsck tries to fix it up.
We can't do much for regular files, but we can fix up directories.
If the directory linkage is intact, it just fixes the formal inode number.
But to check if the directory linkage is intact, we were checking to make
sure the child directory points to the parent with its "..". For example,
suppose we have gfs2 mounted as /mnt/gfs2, and at the root, we have
directory "a", and within "a" we have a subdirectory "b". In other words:
/mnt/gfs2/a/b/...

Now suppose fsck.gfs2 finds a formal inode number mismatch between the
dirent inside "a" which points to "b" and the inode "b" itself. Since
both "a" and "b" are directories, it tries to determine if the directory
linkage is intact by testing whether b's ".." dirent actually points
back to "a". And if it's good, we can just fix the formal inode number
so that they match.

That's all well and good, and works for the most part. However, if
the dirent found to be wrong isn't "b" but ".." we've got a problem.
Today's algorithm would look up the ".." of ".." which won't be
pointingi back to what we want.

For this patch, I'm special-casing ".." and making it just delete the
correct directory entry. However, we have to do it in such a way that
it doesn't decrement di_entries, since the entry is invalid.

rhbz#902920
---
 gfs2/fsck/pass2.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gfs2/fsck/pass2.c b/gfs2/fsck/pass2.c
index a71be4b..5d8c2b6 100644
--- a/gfs2/fsck/pass2.c
+++ b/gfs2/fsck/pass2.c
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static int bad_formal_ino(struct gfs2_inode *ip, struct gfs2_dirent *dent,
 		 (unsigned long long)entry.no_formal_ino,
 		 (unsigned long long)ii->di_num.no_formal_ino,
 		 (unsigned long long)ii->di_num.no_formal_ino);
-	if (q != gfs2_inode_dir) {
+	if (q != gfs2_inode_dir || !strcmp("..", tmp_name)) {
 		if (query( _("Remove the corrupt directory entry? (y/n) ")))
 			return 1;
 		log_err( _("Corrupt directory entry not removed.\n"));
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