[PATCH 1/6] xfs: limit superblock corruption errors to actual corruption

Eric Sandeen
2014-02-10T02:20:39Z

Today, if

xfs_sb_read_verify
xfs_sb_verify
xfs_mount_validate_sb

detects superblock corruption, it'll be extremely noisy, dumping
2 stacks, 2 hexdumps, etc.

This is because we call XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR in xfs_mount_validate_sb
as well as in xfs_sb_read_verify.

Also, *any* errors in xfs_mount_validate_sb which are not corruption
per se; things like too-big-blocksize, bad version, bad magic, v1 dirs,
rw-incompat etc - things which do not return EFSCORRUPTED - will
still do the whole XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR spew when xfs_sb_read_verify
sees any error at all. And it suggests to the user that they
should run xfs_repair, even if the root cause of the mount failure
is a simple incompatibility.

I'll submit that the probably-not-corrupted errors don't warrant
this much noise, so this patch removes the warning for anything
other than EFSCORRUPTED returns, and replaces the lower-level
XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR with an xfs_notice().

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

Thanks to Brian for pointing out this better solution to my
earlier patch.

fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c
index b7c9aea..efaef71 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c
@@ -295,8 +295,7 @@ xfs_mount_validate_sb(
sbp->sb_dblocks == 0 ||
sbp->sb_dblocks > XFS_MAX_DBLOCKS(sbp) ||
sbp->sb_dblocks < XFS_MIN_DBLOCKS(sbp))) {
- XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR("SB sanity check failed",
- XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW, mp, sbp);
+ xfs_notice(mp, "SB sanity check failed");
return XFS_ERROR(EFSCORRUPTED);
}

@@ -625,7 +624,7 @@ xfs_sb_read_verify(

out_error:
if (error) {
- if (error != EWRONGFS)
+ if (error == EFSCORRUPTED)
XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR(__func__, XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW,
mp, bp->b_addr);
xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, error);
-- 1.7.1