On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:19:46 -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 05:08:22PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>> Current btrfs qgroup design implies a requirement that after calling
>> btrfs_qgroup_account_extents() there must be a commit root switch.
>> 
>> Normally this is OK, as btrfs_qgroup_accounting_extents() is only called
>> inside btrfs_commit_transaction() just be commit_cowonly_roots().
>> 
>> However there is a exception at create_pending_snapshot(), which will
>> call btrfs_qgroup_account_extents() but no any commit root switch.
>> 
>> In case of creating a snapshot whose parent root is itself (create a
>> snapshot of fs tree), it will corrupt qgroup by the following trace:
>> (skipped unrelated data)
>> ======
>> btrfs_qgroup_account_extent: bytenr = 29786112, num_bytes = 16384, 
>> nr_old_roots = 0, nr_new_roots = 1
>> qgroup_update_counters: qgid = 5, cur_old_count = 0, cur_new_count = 1, rfer 
>> = 0, excl = 0
>> qgroup_update_counters: qgid = 5, cur_old_count = 0, cur_new_count = 1, rfer 
>> = 16384, excl = 16384
>> btrfs_qgroup_account_extent: bytenr = 29786112, num_bytes = 16384, 
>> nr_old_roots = 0, nr_new_roots = 0
>> ======
>> 
>> The problem here is in first qgroup_account_extent(), the
>> nr_new_roots of the extent is 1, which means its reference got
>> increased, and qgroup increased its rfer and excl.
>> 
>> But at second qgroup_account_extent(), its reference got decreased, but
>> between these two qgroup_account_extent(), there is no switch roots.
>> This leads to the same nr_old_roots, and this extent just got ignored by
>> qgroup, which means this extent is wrongly accounted.
>> 
>> Fix it by call commit_cowonly_roots() after qgroup_account_extent() in
>> create_pending_snapshot(), with needed preparation.
>> 
>> Reported-by: Mark Fasheh <mfas...@suse.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwen...@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> Ok, this version seems to be giving me the right numbers. I'll send a test
> for it shortly. I'd still like to know if this patch introduces an
> unintended side effects but otherwise, thanks Qu.
>       --Mark

Hi Mark,

Can't speak about other side effects since I have not observed any so far,
but I can confirm that the previously failing case of deleting a renamed
snapshot [1] now works properly with v4 without getting the commit roots
in a twist. So:

Tested-by: holger.hoffstae...@googlemail.com

cheers
Holger

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/55052

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