@@ -208,14 +208,6 @@ xchk_xattr_actor(
return -ECANCELED;
}
- /*
- * Local and shortform xattr values are stored in the attr leaf block,
- * so we don't need to retrieve the value from a remote block to detect
- * corruption problems.
- */
- if (value)
- return 0;
-
/*
* Try to allocate enough memory to extract the attr value. If that
* doesn't work, return -EDEADLOCK as a signal to try again with a
@@ -229,6 +221,11 @@ xchk_xattr_actor(
args.value = ab->value;
+ /*
+ * Get the attr value to ensure that lookup can find this attribute
+ * through the dabtree indexing and that remote value retrieval also
+ * works correctly.
+ */
xfs_attr_sethash(&args);
error = xfs_attr_get_ilocked(&args);
/* ENODATA means the hash lookup failed and the attr is bad */