Re: [PATCH 1/1] generic: test fsnotify filesystem error reporting

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 02:40:41AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 09:21:47AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 02:08:11AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 08:50:08PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > > > 
> > > > Test the fsnotify filesystem error reporting.
> > > 
> > > Still would be helpful to explain what is being tested and how and
> > > the source of the test tool.
> > 
> > "Use dmerror to inject a media error for a file's storage, then run some
> > IO and make sure that fanotify reports the IO errors."
> > 
> > (I'm not sure what the process is for updating commit messages once
> > something's in patches-in-queue...)
> 
> patches-in-queue is a scratch branch, I always re-push(-f) to this branch.
> So please feel free to tell me what do you want to update in this patch
> (I'm going to make the next fstests release soon:).

Just the two changes I've mentioned so far in the threads, please.

I've more fixes to make to these tests, so I'll send those patches
shortly.

--D

> Thanks,
> Zorro
> 
> > 
> > > > +#ifndef FILEID_INO32_GEN
> > > > +#define FILEID_INO32_GEN	1
> > > > +#endif
> > > > +
> > > > +#ifndef FILEID_INVALID
> > > > +#define	FILEID_INVALID		0xff
> > > > +#endif
> > > > +
> > > > +static void print_fh(struct file_handle *fh)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	int i;
> > > > +	uint32_t *h = (uint32_t *) fh->f_handle;
> > > > +
> > > > +	printf("\tfh: ");
> > > > +	for (i = 0; i < fh->handle_bytes; i++)
> > > > +		printf("%hhx", fh->f_handle[i]);
> > > > +	printf("\n");
> > > > +
> > > > +	printf("\tdecoded fh: ");
> > > > +	if (fh->handle_type == FILEID_INO32_GEN)
> > > > +		printf("inode=%u gen=%u\n", h[0], h[1]);
> > > > +	else if (fh->handle_type == FILEID_INVALID && !fh->handle_bytes)
> > > > +		printf("Type %d (Superblock error)\n", fh->handle_type);
> > > > +	else
> > > > +		printf("Type %d (Unknown)\n", fh->handle_type);
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Isn't this always going to print unknown for normal xfs mounts without
> > > inode32?
> > 
> > Yes, though generic/791 filters out the file handle and (TBH) I don't
> > really want people getting ideas about cracking file handles.  Probably
> > we should just eliminate this whole part of the function, but that would
> > make future forklift upgrades from the kernel harder.
> > 
> > --D
> > 
>