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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-03-19 16:15:33 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-03-19 16:15:33 +0100
commit7e2dc8ed7862ac622b5a59953b679de97001dc83 (patch)
treed2d2cf61a22f5a6404000ee007c5e80bc2d9eca9 /fs/btrfs/transaction.c
parenta7e8c9cc3a13baf3dcf9734dd55609aa7ff9a1a0 (diff)
parent4a2b0ed2ac7abe9743e1559d212075a0ebac96b3 (diff)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/btrfs/transaction.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/transaction.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
index d3e1ba257b9c..5fc3735e790e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
@@ -1904,6 +1904,22 @@ static noinline int create_pending_snapshot(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
ret = btrfs_uuid_tree_add(trans, new_root_item->received_uuid,
BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL,
objectid);
+ /*
+ * We are creating of lot of snapshots of the same root that was
+ * received (has a received UUID) and reached a leaf's limit for
+ * an item. We can safely ignore this and avoid a transaction
+ * abort. A deletion of this snapshot will still work since we
+ * ignore if an item with a BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL key
+ * is missing (see btrfs_delete_subvolume()). Send/receive will
+ * work too since it peeks the first root id from the existing
+ * item (it could peek any), and in case it's missing it
+ * falls back to search by BTRFS_UUID_KEY_SUBVOL keys.
+ * Creation of a snapshot does not require CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so
+ * we don't want users triggering transaction aborts, either
+ * intentionally or not.
+ */
+ if (ret == -EOVERFLOW)
+ ret = 0;
if (unlikely(ret && ret != -EEXIST)) {
btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret);
goto fail;