btrfs: verity metadata orphan items

Writing out the verity data is too large of an operation to do in a
single transaction. If we are interrupted before we finish creating
fsverity metadata for a file, or fail to clean up already created
metadata after a failure, we could leak the verity items that we already
committed.

To address this issue, we use the orphan mechanism. When we start
enabling verity on a file, we also add an orphan item for that inode.
When we are finished, we delete the orphan. However, if we are
interrupted midway, the orphan will be present at mount and we can
cleanup the half-formed verity state.

There is a possible race with a normal unlink operation: if unlink and
verity run on the same file in parallel, it is possible for verity to
succeed and delete the still legitimate orphan added by unlink. Then, if
we are interrupted and mount in that state, we will never clean up the
inode properly. This is also possible for a file created with O_TMPFILE.
Check nlink==0 before deleting to avoid this race.

A final thing to note is that this is a resurrection of using orphans to
signal an operation besides "delete this inode". The old case was to
signal the need to do a truncate. That case still technically applies
for mounting very old file systems, so we need to take some care to not
clobber it. To that end, we just have to be careful that verity orphan
cleanup is a no-op for non-verity files.

Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

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