[GFS2] Recovery for lost unlinked inodes

Under certain circumstances its possible (though rather unlikely) that
inodes which were unlinked by one node while still open on another might
get "lost" in the sense that they don't get deallocated if the node
which held the inode open crashed before it was unlinked.

This patch adds the recovery code which allows automatic deallocation of
the inode if its found during block allocation (the sensible time to
look for such inodes since we are scanning the rgrp's bitmaps anyway at
this time, so it adds no overhead to do this).

Since the inode will have had its i_nlink set to zero, all we need to
trigger recovery is a lookup and an iput(), and the normal deallocation
code takes care of the rest.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
index 87505f7eb74..cacdb0dfe57 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -98,22 +98,8 @@ struct inode *gfs2_inode_lookup(struct super_block *sb, u64 no_addr, unsigned in
 
 	if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) {
 		struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(inode);
-		umode_t mode = DT2IF(type);
+		umode_t mode;
 		inode->i_private = ip;
-		inode->i_mode = mode;
-
-		if (S_ISREG(mode)) {
-			inode->i_op = &gfs2_file_iops;
-			inode->i_fop = &gfs2_file_fops;
-			inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &gfs2_file_aops;
-		} else if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
-			inode->i_op = &gfs2_dir_iops;
-			inode->i_fop = &gfs2_dir_fops;
-		} else if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
-			inode->i_op = &gfs2_symlink_iops;
-		} else {
-			inode->i_op = &gfs2_dev_iops;
-		}
 
 		error = gfs2_glock_get(sdp, no_addr, &gfs2_inode_glops, CREATE, &ip->i_gl);
 		if (unlikely(error))
@@ -130,10 +116,44 @@ struct inode *gfs2_inode_lookup(struct super_block *sb, u64 no_addr, unsigned in
 			goto fail_iopen;
 
 		gfs2_glock_put(io_gl);
+
+		/*
+		 * We must read the inode in order to work out its type in
+		 * this case. Note that this doesn't happen often as we normally
+		 * know the type beforehand. This code path only occurs during
+		 * unlinked inode recovery (where it is safe to do this glock,
+		 * which is not true in the general case).
+		 */
+		inode->i_mode = mode = DT2IF(type);
+		if (type == DT_UNKNOWN) {
+			struct gfs2_holder gh;
+			error = gfs2_glock_nq_init(ip->i_gl, LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE, 0, &gh);
+			if (unlikely(error))
+				goto fail_glock;
+			/* Inode is now uptodate */
+			mode = inode->i_mode;
+			gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
+		}
+
+		if (S_ISREG(mode)) {
+			inode->i_op = &gfs2_file_iops;
+			inode->i_fop = &gfs2_file_fops;
+			inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &gfs2_file_aops;
+		} else if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
+			inode->i_op = &gfs2_dir_iops;
+			inode->i_fop = &gfs2_dir_fops;
+		} else if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {
+			inode->i_op = &gfs2_symlink_iops;
+		} else {
+			inode->i_op = &gfs2_dev_iops;
+		}
+
 		unlock_new_inode(inode);
 	}
 
 	return inode;
+fail_glock:
+	gfs2_glock_dq(&ip->i_iopen_gh);
 fail_iopen:
 	gfs2_glock_put(io_gl);
 fail_put: