On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 07:48:27PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 12:20:43PM -0700, Boris Burkov wrote: > > +/* > > + * Helper to manage the transaction for adding an orphan item. > > + */ > > +static int add_orphan(struct btrfs_inode *inode) > > I wonder if this helper is useful, it's used only once and the code is > not long. Simply wrapping btrfs_orphan_add into a transaction is short > enough to be in btrfs_begin_enable_verity. > I agree that just the plain transaction logic is not a big deal, and I couldn't figure out how to phrase the comment so I left it at that, which is unhelpful. With that said, I found that pulling it out into a helper function significantly reduced the gross-ness of the error handling in the callsites. Especially for del_orphan in end verity which tries to handle failures deleting the orphans, which quickly got tangled up with other errors in the function and the possible transaction errors. Honestly, I was surprised just how much it helped, and couldn't really figure out why. If a helper being really beneficial is abnormal, I can try again to figure out a clean way to write the code with the transaction in-line. > > +{ > > + struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans; > > + struct btrfs_root *root = inode->root; > > + int ret = 0; > > + > > + trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 1); > > + if (IS_ERR(trans)) { > > + ret = PTR_ERR(trans); > > + goto out; > > + } > > + ret = btrfs_orphan_add(trans, inode); > > + if (ret) { > > + btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret); > > + goto out; > > + } > > + btrfs_end_transaction(trans); > > + > > +out: > > + return ret; > > +} > > + > > +/* > > + * Helper to manage the transaction for deleting an orphan item. > > + */ > > +static int del_orphan(struct btrfs_inode *inode) > > Same here. My comment is dumb again, but the nlink check does make this function marginally more useful for re-use/correctness. > > > +{ > > + struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans; > > + struct btrfs_root *root = inode->root; > > + int ret; > > + > > + /* > > + * If the inode has no links, it is either already unlinked, or was > > + * created with O_TMPFILE. In either case, it should have an orphan from > > + * that other operation. Rather than reference count the orphans, we > > + * simply ignore them here, because we only invoke the verity path in > > + * the orphan logic when i_nlink is 0. > > + */ > > + if (!inode->vfs_inode.i_nlink) > > + return 0; > > + > > + trans = btrfs_start_transaction(root, 1); > > + if (IS_ERR(trans)) > > + return PTR_ERR(trans); > > + > > + ret = btrfs_del_orphan_item(trans, root, btrfs_ino(inode)); > > + if (ret) { > > + btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret); > > + return ret; > > + } > > + > > + btrfs_end_transaction(trans); > > + return ret; > > +}