We had a bug where the root inode of a subvolume was erronously deleted:
bch2_evict_inode() called bch2_inode_rm(), meaning the VFS inode's
i_nlink was somehow set to 0 when it shouldn't have - the inode in the
btree indicated it clearly was not unlinked.
This has been addressed with additional safety checks in
bch2_inode_rm() - pulling in the safety checks we already were doing
when deleting unlinked inodes in recovery - but the really disastrous
bug was in check_subvols(), which on finding a dangling subvol (subvol
with a missing root inode) would delete the subvolume.
I assume this bug dates from early check_directory_structure() code,
which originally handled subvolumes and normal paths - the idea being
that still live contents of the subvolume would get reattached
somewhere.
But that's incorrect, and disastrously so; deleting a subvolume triggers
deleting the snapshot ID it points to, deleting the entire contents.
The correct way to repair is to recreate the root inode if it's missing;
then any contents will get reattached under that subvolume's lost+found.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>