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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:58:04 +0000
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To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 223348] Inode number for directories change to inode number of directory two levels up causing hierarchy loop
Message-ID:  <bug-223348-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D223348

            Bug ID: 223348
           Summary: Inode number for directories change to inode number of
                    directory two levels up causing hierarchy loop
           Product: Base System
           Version: CURRENT
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: gnu
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: iz-rpi03@hs-karlsruhe.de

Hi,

I ran into this bug on two different systems.
- One uses a r324861 amd64 GENERIC-NODEBUG kernel and userland with ZFS,
- the other uses a r324918 arm RPI-B kernel an userland with UFS2.

The directory hierarchy loop occures on both systems, so I think it is not
related to the underlying filesystem.

After installing freebsd-uucp from ports and configuring it, there exists a=
 new
directory tree /var/spool/uucp/lyxys/[DX].
At that moment the content of lyxys/D. and lyxys/X. looked as expected.
But some time after both looked for ls(1) like a copy of /var/spool/uucp.
And indeed ls(1) showed the same inode number for all three directories:

63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 /var/spool/uucp
95493 drwxr-xr-x   4 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys
63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys/D.
63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys/X.

fsdb(8) showed me different inode numbers than ls(1) for the D. and X.
directories.
But this can be a mistake, as it was my first use of fsdb.

fsck_ufs does not report any error or tries to fix something.
As ZFS does not have a fsck, I tried "zpool scrub". Which also did not repo=
rt
any error.
So both internal filesystem structures seem to be OK.


Steps tried to reproduce the problem:

With ZFS all I can do is a rooback to a earlier snapshot without the
/var/spool/uucp directory and start again.
As it is easier for me to experiment with the arm system I used the Raspber=
ry
Pi for the following tests.

Trying to get closer to the moment this happens I set up a date(1), ls(1) l=
oop
on a fresh set up[1] UFS.

It showed the inode change in the directory information happend sometime
between, 02:57 and 03:57 CEST:

Wed Oct 25 02:57:07 CEST 2017
 95237 drwxr-xr-x  25 root  wheel  512 Oct 24 23:38 /var
102372 drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel  512 Mar  7  2017 /var/spool/
102701 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 /var/spool/uucp
102711 drwxr-xr-x   4 uucp  uucp   512 Oct 24 23:53 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys
102684 drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp  uucp   512 Oct 24 23:53 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys/D.
102685 drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp  uucp   512 Oct 24 23:53 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys/X.
Wed Oct 25 03:57:08 CEST 2017
 95237 drwxr-xr-x  25 root  wheel  512 Oct 24 23:38 /var
102372 drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel  512 Mar  7  2017 /var/spool/
102701 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 /var/spool/uucp
102711 drwxr-xr-x   4 uucp  uucp   512 Oct 24 23:53 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys
102701 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys/D.
102701 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 /var/spool/uucp/lyxys/X.

As the system was not used actively, the only difference between the hours
before and after the change was cron running periodic daily at 03:01:00.

In the next step I searched for a way to faster set up the UFS for testing.
First I used "dump -0a -f /usr/local/root_dump /" on the arm then moved
the SD-card to the amd64 and with
  newfs -UEt /dev/da0s2a
  mount /dev/da0s2a /mnt
  mount -r /dev/da0s3a /tmp/da0s3a/
  cd /mnt
  restore rf /tmp/da0s3a/root_dump
  rm restoresymtable
restored the filesystem. The output of ls(1) showed everything is OK:

# ls -lid var/spool/uucp var/spool/uucp/lyxys var/spool/uucp/lyxys/*
95491 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 var/spool/uucp
  261 drwxr-xr-x   4 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 var/spool/uucp/lyxys
32005 drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 var/spool/uucp/lyxys/D.
63746 drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 var/spool/uucp/lyxys/X.
#=20

But after booting this filesystem on the arm:
# cd /; ls -lid var/spool/uucp var/spool/uucp/lyxys var/spool/uucp/lyxys/*
95491 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 var/spool/uucp
  261 drwxr-xr-x   4 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 var/spool/uucp/lyxys
95491 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 var/spool/uucp/lyxys/D.
95491 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 var/spool/uucp/lyxys/X.
#=20

Again mounted on the amd64 showed the same output.
Now I tried just restoring, unmounting and mounting the UFS on the amd64 an=
d it
looks like it happens immediately with the unmount:

# rm restoresymtable=20
# ls -lid var/spool/uucp var/spool/uucp/lyxys var/spool/uucp/lyxys/*
63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 var/spool/uucp
95493 drwxr-xr-x   4 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 var/spool/uucp/lyxys
  261 drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 var/spool/uucp/lyxys/D.
32002 drwxr-xr-x   2 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 var/spool/uucp/lyxys/X.
# cd; umount /mnt; mount /dev/da0s2a /mnt; cd /mnt
# ls -lid var/spool/uucp var/spool/uucp/lyxys var/spool/uucp/lyxys/*
63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 var/spool/uucp
95493 drwxr-xr-x   4 uucp  uucp  512 Oct 24 23:53 var/spool/uucp/lyxys
63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 var/spool/uucp/lyxys/D.
63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 var/spool/uucp/lyxys/X.
#=20

So I have two ways of repeating this behaviour:
- Waiting till periodiy daily triggers ist somehow. Or calling it immediate=
ly.
- Restoring the filesystem from dump(8) and unmounting it.


Just to complete the information and to demonstrate the loop, this is what =
the
ls(1) optput looks like without -d:

# ls -li var/spool/uucp var/spool/uucp/lyxys var/spool/uucp/lyxys/*
var/spool/uucp:
total 44
95491 drwxr-xr-x  3 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Failed
  259 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Preserve
63748 drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Received
95492 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Sequence
  260 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Status
32001 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Temp
63749 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Xqtdir
67117 -rw-r--r--  1 uucp  uucp  5959 Nov 24  2014 Log
67118 -rw-r--r--  1 uucp  uucp  3728 Nov 24  2014 Stats
95493 drwxr-xr-x  4 uucp  uucp   512 Oct 24 23:53 lyxys

var/spool/uucp/lyxys:
total 8
63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 D.
63747 drwxrwxr-x  10 uucp  uucp  512 Feb  7  2017 X.

var/spool/uucp/lyxys/D.:
total 44
95491 drwxr-xr-x  3 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Failed
  259 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Preserve
63748 drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Received
95492 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Sequence
  260 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Status
32001 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Temp
63749 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Xqtdir
67117 -rw-r--r--  1 uucp  uucp  5959 Nov 24  2014 Log
67118 -rw-r--r--  1 uucp  uucp  3728 Nov 24  2014 Stats
95493 drwxr-xr-x  4 uucp  uucp   512 Oct 24 23:53 lyxys

var/spool/uucp/lyxys/X.:
total 44
95491 drwxr-xr-x  3 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Failed
  259 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Preserve
63748 drwxr-xr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Received
95492 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Sequence
  260 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Sep  4  2013 .Status
32001 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Temp
63749 drwxrwxr-x  2 uucp  uucp   512 Feb  7  2017 .Xqtdir
67117 -rw-r--r--  1 uucp  uucp  5959 Nov 24  2014 Log
67118 -rw-r--r--  1 uucp  uucp  3728 Nov 24  2014 Stats
95493 drwxr-xr-x  4 uucp  uucp   512 Oct 24 23:53 lyxys
#=20

A friend hinted me to the 64bit inode change as a possible cause, but as I =
do
not have a backup old enough I can not verify his idea easily.


Ralf

[1] newfs, rsync from backup without /var/spool/uucp, port reinstalled,
configured.

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