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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: [PATCH v23.2 4/4] xfs: don't return -EFSCORRUPTED from repair when resources cannot be grabbed
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 13:35:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2V3oOMM85/MwK0i@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <166473479567.1083393.7668585289114718845.stgit@magnolia>

From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

If we tried to repair something but the repair failed with -EDEADLOCK,
that means that the repair function couldn't grab some resource it
needed and wants us to try again.  If we try again (with TRY_HARDER) but
still can't get all the resources we need, the repair fails and errors
remain on the filesystem.

Right now, repair returns the -EDEADLOCK to the caller as -EFSCORRUPTED,
which results in XFS_SCRUB_OFLAG_CORRUPT being passed out to userspace.
This is not correct because repair has not determined that anything is
corrupt.  If the repair had been invoked on an object that could be
optimized but wasn't corrupt (OFLAG_PREEN), the inability to grab
resources will be reported to userspace as corrupt metadata, and users
will be unnecessarily alarmed that their suboptimal metadata turned into
a corruption.

Fix this by returning zero so that the results of the actual scrub will
be copied back out to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
---
v23.2: fix the commit message to discuss what's really going on in this
       patch.
---
 fs/xfs/scrub/repair.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/repair.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/repair.c
index 7323bd9fddfb..86f770af6737 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/repair.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/repair.c
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ xrep_attempt(
 		/*
 		 * We tried harder but still couldn't grab all the resources
 		 * we needed to fix it.  The corruption has not been fixed,
-		 * so report back to userspace.
+		 * so exit to userspace with the corruption flags still set.
 		 */
-		return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+		return 0;
 	default:
 		/*
 		 * EAGAIN tells the caller to re-scrub, so we cannot return

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-04 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-02 18:19 [PATCHSET v23.1 0/4] xfs: fix incorrect return values in online fsck Darrick J. Wong
2022-10-02 18:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: return EINTR when a fatal signal terminates scrub Darrick J. Wong
2022-10-13 22:43   ` Dave Chinner
2022-10-02 18:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: don't return -EFSCORRUPTED from repair when resources cannot be grabbed Darrick J. Wong
2022-10-13 22:49   ` Dave Chinner
2022-10-14 21:44     ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-11-04 20:35   ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2022-11-08  1:27     ` [PATCH v23.2 " Darrick J. Wong
2022-11-08  1:28   ` [PATCH v23.3 " Darrick J. Wong
2022-11-15  2:54     ` Dave Chinner
2022-10-02 18:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: don't retry repairs harder when EAGAIN is returned Darrick J. Wong
2022-10-13 22:46   ` Dave Chinner
2022-10-02 18:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: fix return code when fatal signal encountered during dquot scrub Darrick J. Wong
2022-10-13 22:43   ` Dave Chinner

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