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While investigating a problem with error injection I tripped over curious behavior in the node/leaf splitting code. If we get an EIO when trying to read either the left or right leaf/node for splitting we'll simply treat the node as if it were full and continue on. The end result of this isn't too bad, we simply end up allocating a block when we may have pushed items into the adjacent blocks. However this does essentially allow us to continue to modify a file system that we've gotten errors on, either from a bad disk or csum mismatch or other corruption. This isn't particularly safe, so instead handle these btrfs_read_node_slot() usages differently. We allow you to pass in any slot, the idea being that we save some code if the slot number is outside of the range of the parent. This means we treat all errors the same, when in reality we only want to ignore -ENOENT. Fix this by changing how we call btrfs_read_node_slot(), which is to only call it for slots we know are valid. This way if we get an error back from reading the block we can properly pass the error up the chain. This was validated with the error injection testing I was doing. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.