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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, alex@zadara.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] xfs_repair: check plausibility of root dir pointer before trashing it
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:50:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200130205008.GG3447196@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38318182-e132-3814-f10b-fdf7201dba28@sandeen.net>

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 02:41:29PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 1/30/20 2:34 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 02:18:52PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> On 1/23/20 6:17 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> >>> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> >>>
> >>> If sb_rootino doesn't point to where we think mkfs should have allocated
> >>> the root directory, check to see if the alleged root directory actually
> >>> looks like a root directory.  If so, we'll let it live because someone
> >>> could have changed sunit since formatting time, and that changes the
> >>> root directory inode estimate.
> >>
> >> I forget, is there an fstest for this?
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20191218041831.GK12765@magnolia/
> 
> of course :)

:D

> ...
> 
> >>> +	if (mp->m_sb.sb_rootino != rootino && has_plausible_rootdir(mp)) {
> >>> +		do_warn(
> >>> +_("sb root inode value %" PRIu64 " inconsistent with alignment (expected %"PRIu64")\n"),
> >>> +			mp->m_sb.sb_rootino, rootino);
> >>
> >> what would a user do with this warning?  Is there any value in emitting it?
> >>
> >> Otherwise this looks good.
> > 
> > I dunno -- on the one hand, I understand that nobody wants to deal with
> > the support calls that will erupt from that message.  On the other hand,
> > it's an indication that this filesystem isn't /quite/ the way we
> > expected it to be, and that would be a helpful hint if you were
> > debugging some other weird problem with an xfs filesystem.
> > 
> > What if this were a do_log()?
> 
> how about something that's less indicative of a problem and more informational,
> 
> "sb root inode validated in unaligned location possibly due to sunit change"

Sounds good to me.

--D

> -Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-30 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-24  0:17 [PATCH v3 0/6] xfs_repair: do not trash valid root dirs Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-24  0:17 ` [PATCH 1/6] mkfs: check root inode location Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-30 19:32   ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-30 20:19     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-30 20:34       ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-24  0:17 ` [PATCH 2/6] xfs_repair: enforce that inode btree chunks can't point to AG headers Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-30 19:38   ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-30 20:26     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-30 20:46       ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-24  0:17 ` [PATCH 3/6] xfs_repair: refactor fixed inode location checks Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-30 19:45   ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-30 19:52     ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-24  0:17 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfs_repair: use libxfs function to calculate root inode location Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-30 19:48   ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-24  0:17 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs_repair: check plausibility of root dir pointer before trashing it Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-30 20:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-30 20:34     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-30 20:41       ` Eric Sandeen
2020-01-30 20:50         ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2020-01-24  0:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfs_repair: try to correct sb_unit value from secondaries Darrick J. Wong
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2020-01-01  1:20 [PATCH v2 0/6] xfs_repair: do not trash valid root dirs Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-01  1:21 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs_repair: check plausibility of root dir pointer before trashing it Darrick J. Wong

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