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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] xfs: scrub should mark a directory corrupt if any entries cannot be iget'd
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 10:11:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201204101101.GC1734@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160704438289.736504.15952269053640029711.stgit@magnolia>

On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 05:13:02PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> It's possible that xfs_iget can return EINVAL for inodes that the inobt
> thinks are free, or ENOENT for inodes that look free.  If this is the
> case, mark the directory corrupt immediately when we check ftype.  Note
> that we already check the ftype of the '.' and '..' entries, so we
> can skip the iget part since we already know the inode type for '.' and
> we have a separate parent pointer scrubber for '..'.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

But I wonder if we need the EINVAL vs ENOENT distinction to start
with or if we could return a single coherent error code from iget.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-04 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-04  1:12 [PATCH 0/3] xfs: random fixes for 5.11 Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-04  1:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: detect overflows in bmbt records Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-04 10:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-04  1:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: fix parent pointer scrubber bailing out on unallocated inodes Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-04 10:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-04  1:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: scrub should mark a directory corrupt if any entries cannot be iget'd Darrick J. Wong
2020-12-04 10:11   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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