Re: [BUG REPORT] ext4: “errors=remount-ro” has become “errors=shutdown”?

Darrick J. Wong
2025-01-06T23:49:57Z

On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 10:41:28AM +0800, Baokun Li wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
> On 2025/1/3 23:54, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 10:35:17AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > I don't see how setting the shutdown flag causes reads to fail. That
> > > was true in an early version of the ext4 patch which implemented
> > > shutdown support, but one of the XFS developers (I don't remember if
> > > it was Dave or Cristoph) objected because XFS did not cause the
> > > read_pages function to fail. Are you seeing this with an upstream
> > > kernel, or with a patched kernel? The upstream kernel does *not* have
> > > the check in ext4_readpages() or ext4_read_folio() (post folio
> > > conversion).
> > OK, that's weird. Testing on 6.13-rc4, I don't see the problem simulating an ext4 error:
> >
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# mke2fs -t ext4 -Fq /dev/vdc
> > /dev/vdc contains a ext4 file system
> > last mounted on /vdc on Fri Jan 3 10:38:21 2025
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# mount -t ext4 -o errors=continue /dev/vdc /vdc
> We are discussing "errors=remount-ro," as the title states, not the
> continue mode. The key code leading to the behavior change is as follows,
> therefore the continue mode is not affected.

Hmm. On the one hand, XFS has generally returned EIO (or ESHUTDOWN in a
couple of specialty cases) when the fs has been shut down.

OTOH XFS also doesn't have errors=remount-ro; it just dies, which I
think has been its behavior for a long time.

To me, it doesn't sound unreasonable for ext* to allow reads after a
shutdown when errors=remount-ro since it's always had that behavior.

Bonus Q: do you want an errors=fail variant to shut things down fast?

--D

> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static void ext4_handle_error(struct super_block *sb,
> bool force_ro, int error,
>                 WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>
>         if (!continue_fs && !sb_rdonly(sb)) {
> -               ext4_set_mount_flag(sb, EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED);
> +               set_bit(EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN, &EXT4_SB(sb)->s_ext4_flags);
>                 if (journal)
>                         jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EIO);
>         }
>
> See the end for problem reproduction.
>
> > [ 24.780982] EXT4-fs (vdc): mounted filesystem f8595206-fe57-486c-80dd-48b03d41ebdb r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# cp /etc/motd /vdc/motd
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# echo testing > /sys/fs/ext4/vdc/trigger_fs_error
> > [ 42.943141] EXT4-fs error (device vdc): trigger_test_error:129: comm bash: testing
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# cat /vdc/motd
> >
> > The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
> > the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
> > individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
> >
> > Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
> > permitted by applicable law.
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~#
> >
> >
> > HOWEVER, testing with shutdown ioctl, both ext4 and xfs are failing with EIO:
> Yes, this is as expected.
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# mount /dev/vdc /vdc
> > [ 7.969168] XFS (vdc): Mounting V5 Filesystem 7834ea96-eab0-46c5-9b18-c8f054fa9cf4
> > [ 7.978539] XFS (vdc): Ending clean mount
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# cp /etc/motd /vdc
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# /root/xfstests/src/godown -v /vdc
> > Opening "/vdc"
> > Calling XFS_IOC_GOINGDOWN
> > [ 29.354609] XFS (vdc): User initiated shutdown received.
> > [ 29.356123] XFS (vdc): Log I/O Error (0x6) detected at xfs_fs_goingdown+0x55/0xb0 (fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c:452). Shutting down filesystem.
> > [ 29.357092] XFS (vdc): Please unmount the filesystem and rectify the problem(s)
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~# cat /vdc/motd
> > cat: /vdc/motd: Input/output error
> > root@kvm-xfstests:~#
> >
> > So I take back what I said earlier, but I am a bit confused why it
> > worked after simulating an file system error using "echo testing >
> > /sys/fs/ext4/vdc/trigger_fs_error".
> >
> It's because "errors=remount-ro" wasn't used when mounting...
>
> Here's a replication:
>
> root@kvm-xfstests:~# mount -o errors=remount-ro /dev/vdc /mnt/test
> [  115.731007] EXT4-fs (vdc): mounted filesystem
> 0838f08f-c04e-440c-a9a5-417677efb03e r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode:
> none.
> root@kvm-xfstests:~# echo test > /mnt/test/file
> root@kvm-xfstests:~# cat /mnt/test/file
> test
> root@kvm-xfstests:~# echo 1 > /sys/fs/ext4/vdc/trigger_fs_error
> [  131.537649] EXT4-fs error (device vdc): trigger_test_error:129: comm
> bash: 1
> [  131.538226] Aborting journal on device vdc-8.
> [  131.538844] EXT4-fs (vdc): Remounting filesystem read-only
> root@kvm-xfstests:~# cat /mnt/test/file
> cat: /mnt/test/file: Input/output error
> root@kvm-xfstests:~# uname -a
> Linux kvm-xfstests 6.13.0-rc4-xfstests-g6cfe3548f8f5-dirty #284 SMP
> PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Dec 27 10:39:02 CST 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> Regards,
> Baokun
>
>