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
next prev parent 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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