Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] ext4: commit super block if fs record error when journal record without error

[Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>]

On 2023/2/17 1:31, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 14-02-23 10:29:04, Ye Bin wrote:
>> From: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
>>
>> Now, 'es->s_state' maybe covered by recover journal. And journal errno
>> maybe not recorded in journal sb as IO error. ext4_update_super() only
>> update error information when 'sbi->s_add_error_count' large than zero.
>> Then 'EXT4_ERROR_FS' flag maybe lost.
>> To solve above issue commit error information after recover journal.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   fs/ext4/super.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> Hum, I'm not sure I follow here. If journal replay has overwritten the
> superblock (and thus the stored error info), then I'd expect
> es->s_error_count got overwritten (possibly to 0) as well. And this is
> actually relatively realistic scenario with errors=remount-ro behavior when
> the first fs error happens.
>
> What I intended in my original suggestion was to save es->s_error_count,
> es->s_state & EXT4_ERROR_FS, es->s_first_error_*, es->s_last_error_* before
> doing journal replay in ext4_load_journal() and then after journal replay
> merge this info back to the superblock - if EXT4_ERROR_FS was set, set it
> now as well, take max of old and new s_error_count, set s_first_error_* if
> it is now unset, set s_last_error_* if stored timestamp is newer than
> current timestamp.
>
> Or am I overengineering it now? :)
>
> 								Honza
This is exactly how the code is designed now！
The code has now saved all the above information except EXT4_ERROR_FS by
the following two pieces of logic, as follows：

---------------- In struct ext4_super_block ----------------
1412 #define EXT4_S_ERR_START offsetof(struct ext4_super_block, 
s_error_count)
1413         __le32  s_error_count;          /* number of fs errors */
1414         __le32  s_first_error_time;     /* first time an error 
happened */
1415         __le32  s_first_error_ino;      /* inode involved in first 
error */
1416         __le64  s_first_error_block;    /* block involved of first 
error */
1417         __u8    s_first_error_func[32] __nonstring;     /* function 
where the error happened */
1418         __le32  s_first_error_line;     /* line number where error 
happened */
1419         __le32  s_last_error_time;      /* most recent time of an 
error */
1420         __le32  s_last_error_ino;       /* inode involved in last 
error */
1421         __le32  s_last_error_line;      /* line number where error 
happened */
1422         __le64  s_last_error_block;     /* block involved of last 
error */
1423         __u8    s_last_error_func[32] __nonstring;      /* function 
where the error happened */
1424 #define EXT4_S_ERR_END offsetof(struct ext4_super_block, s_mount_opts)
-----------------------------------------------------------

---------------- In ext4_load_journal() ----------------
5929                 char *save = kmalloc(EXT4_S_ERR_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
5930                 if (save)
5931                         memcpy(save, ((char *) es) +
5932                                EXT4_S_ERR_START, EXT4_S_ERR_LEN);
5933                 err = jbd2_journal_load(journal);
5934                 if (save)
5935                         memcpy(((char *) es) + EXT4_S_ERR_START,
5936                                save, EXT4_S_ERR_LEN);
5937                 kfree(save);
--------------------------------------------------------

As you said, we should also save EXT4_ERROR_FS to es->s_state.
But we are not saving this now, so I think we just need to add

  `es->s_state |= cpu_to_le16(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_state & EXT4_ERROR_FS);`

to save the possible EXT4_ERROR_FS flag after copying the error area 
data to es.


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With Best Regards,
Baokun Li
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