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From: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	adilger@clusterfs.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org, cmm@us.ibm.com
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>, Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Subject: ext2/ext3 errors behaviour fixes
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:50:00 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452367A8.3010405@sw.ru> (raw)

Hello all,

Current error behaviour for ext2 and ext3 filesystems does not fully correspond
to the documentation and should be fixed.

According to man 8 mount, ext2 and ext3 file systems allow to set one of 3
different on-errors behaviours:

---- start of quote man 8 mount ----
errors=continue / errors=remount-ro / errors=panic
    Define the behaviour when an error is encountered. (Either ignore errors and
just mark the file system erroneous and continue, or remount the file system
read-only, or panic and halt the system.) The default is set in the filesystem
superblock, and can be changed using tune2fs(8).
---- end of quote ----

However EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock, and thus
ERRORS_CONT is not saved on the sbi->s_mount_opt. It leads to the incorrect
handle of errors on ext3.

Then we've checked corresponding code in ext2 and discovered that it is
buggy as well:
- EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE is not read from the superblock (the same);
- parse_option() does not clean the alternative values and thus
  something like (ERRORS_CONT|ERRORS_RO) can be set;
- if options are omitted, parse_option() does not set any of these options.

Therefore it is possible to set any combination of these options on the ext2:
- none of them may be set:
 EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE on superblock / empty mount options;
- any of them may be set using mount options;
- 2 any options may be set: by using EXT2_ERRORS_RO/EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the
superblock and other value in mount options;
- and finally all three options may be set by adding third option in remount.

Currently ext2 uses these values only in ext2_error() and it is not leading to
any noticeable troubles. However somebody may be discouraged when he will try to
workaround EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC on the superblock by using errors=continue in mount
options.

The following patches fix this.

Thank you,
	Vasily Averin

SWsoft Virtuozzo/OpenVZ Linux kernel team


             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-04  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-04  7:50 Vasily Averin [this message]
2006-10-04 15:02 ` ext2/ext3 errors behaviour fixes Andreas Dilger
2006-10-04 15:07   ` Andreas Dilger

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