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Kent Overstreet
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Codepaths that create entries in the snapshots btree currently call bch2_mark_snapshot(), which updates the in-memory snapshot table, before transaction commit. This is because bch2_mark_snapshot() is an atomic trigger, run with btree write locks held, and isn't allowed to fail - but it might need to reallocate the table, hence we call it early when we're still allowed to fail. This is generally harmless - if we fail, we'll have left an entry in the snapshots table around, but nothing will reference it and it'll get overwritten if reused by another transaction. But check_snapshot_exists(), which reconstructs snapshots when the snapshots btree has been corrupted or lost, was erronously rechecking if the snapshot exists inside the transaction commit loop - so on transaction restart (in this case mem_realloced), the second iteration would return without repairing. This code needs some cleanup: splitting out a "maybe realloc snapshots table" helper would have avoided this, that will be in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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