Re: [PATCH v3] xfs/098: fix xfs_repair on newer xfsprogs

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On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:59:02AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 9/12/16 12:13 AM, Xiao Yang wrote:
> > The obsolete xfs_repair always cleared the log regardless of whether it
> > is corrupted.   However current xfs_repair only cleared the log when -L
> > option is specified, so xfs_repair without any options failed to clear log
> > on newer xfsprogs.  If xfs_repair failed to clear log, xfs_repair -L option
> > should be used to clear it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  common/rc     | 10 ++++++----
> >  tests/xfs/098 |  2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
> > index 04039a4..fda108c 100644
> > --- a/common/rc
> > +++ b/common/rc
> > @@ -1134,16 +1134,18 @@ _scratch_xfs_repair()
> >      $XFS_REPAIR_PROG $SCRATCH_OPTIONS $* $SCRATCH_DEV
> >  }
> >  
> > -# Repair scratch filesystem.  Returns 0 if the FS is good to go (either no
> > -# errors found or errors were fixed) and nonzero otherwise; also spits out
> > -# a complaint on stderr if fsck didn't tell us that the FS is good to go.
> > +# Repair scratch filesystem.  Return 2 if the filesystem has valuable
> > +# metadata changes in log which needs to be replayed, 1 if there's
> > +# corruption left to be fixed or can't find log head and tail or some
> > +# other errors happened, and 0 if nothing wrong or all the corruptions
> > +# were fixed.
> 
> I'm sorry to nitpick; this looks almost correct to me....
> 
> I think the problem here is really due to a bug in xfsprogs, (see patch
> [PATCH] xfs_repair: exit with status 2 if log dirtiness is unknown sent
> to the xfs list today), but we do need to handle binaries between 4.3.0
> and if/when that fix gets applied, so catching any non-zero return value
> below does make sense to me.

Agree, this comment don't need to be changed.

> 
> But the new comment above is very xfs-specific, and _repair_scratch_fs
> is a generic function (it has a *) default $FSTYP case...)
> 
> And even if /xfs_repair/ returns 2, the bash function
> _repair_scratch_fs() won't; $res gets overwritten by the last
> call to xfs_repair, at which point there should be no dirty log.
> So _repair_scratch_fs() really only returns 0 or 1, even if xfs_repair
> may have a return value of 2.  So the new comment is not correct.
> 
> To fix that, I would simply leave the comment unchanged.
> 
> 
> The other remaining problem I see is this, on a CONFIG_XFS_WARN kernel:
> 
> xfs/098 12s ... 12s
> _check_dmesg: something found in dmesg (see /mnt/test2/git/xfstests/results//xfs/098.dmesg)
> Ran: xfs/098
> Failures: xfs/098
> Failed 1 of 1 tests
> 
> because the failed mount issued warnings, at least on a CONFIG_XFS_WARN build:
> 
> [249062.871158] XFS (sdb2): log mount failed
> [249063.170109] XFS (sdb2): Mounting V5 Filesystem
> [249063.266522] XFS (sdb2): Log inconsistent (didn't find previous header)
> [249063.273135] XFS: Assertion failed: 0, file: fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c, line: 540

Wow, I didn't find that. I'll test xfs with CONFIG_XFS_WARN in the future:)

Hi Xiao, if you want to ignore this kernel warning, you can check how
generic/095 do that.

Thanks,
Zorro

> ...
> 
> so we should probably have a _disable_dmesg_check; I'm not sure if it would
> be better to put it in _repair_scratch_fs in the "mount failed, zap
> the log" case, or to put it in test 098 directly.  I think it would
> be better to put it in 098, because we know we are dealing with a corrupt
> log and can expect the message; putting it in _repair_scratch_fs may mask
> problems on other tests that use it.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Eric
> 
> 
> 
> >  _repair_scratch_fs()
> >  {
> >      case $FSTYP in
> >      xfs)
> >          _scratch_xfs_repair "$@" 2>&1
> >  	res=$?
> > -	if [ "$res" -eq 2 ]; then
> > +	if [ "$res" -ne 0 ]; then
> >  		echo "xfs_repair returns $res; replay log?"
> >  		_scratch_mount
> >  		res=$?
> > diff --git a/tests/xfs/098 b/tests/xfs/098
> > index d91d617..3743e78 100755
> > --- a/tests/xfs/098
> > +++ b/tests/xfs/098
> > @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ echo "+ mount image"
> >  _scratch_mount 2>/dev/null && _fail "mount should not succeed"
> >  
> >  echo "+ repair fs"
> > -_scratch_xfs_repair >> $seqres.full 2>&1
> > +_repair_scratch_fs >> $seqres.full 2>&1
> >  
> >  echo "+ mount image (2)"
> >  _scratch_mount
> > 
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