XArray: Disallow sibling entries of nodes
There is a race between xas_split() and xas_load() which can result in the wrong page being returned, and thus data corruption. Fortunately, it's hard to hit (syzbot took three months to find it) and often guarded with VM_BUG_ON(). The anatomy of this race is: thread A thread B order-9 page is stored at index 0x200 lookup of page at index 0x274 page split starts load of sibling entry at offset 9 stores nodes at offsets 8-15 load of entry at offset 8 The entry at offset 8 turns out to be a node, and so we descend into it, and load the page at index 0x234 instead of 0x274. This is hard to fix on the split side; we could replace the entire node that contains the order-9 page instead of replacing the eight entries. Fixing it on the lookup side is easier; just disallow sibling entries that point to nodes. This cannot ever be a useful thing as the descent would not know the correct offset to use within the new node. The test suite continues to pass...
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