Re: [PATCH 1/2 V3] xfs_repair: notify user if free inodes contain errors

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 07:34:13PM -0700, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> xfs_repair checks allocated but unused (free) inodes in on-disk clusters,
> and up until now silently repairs any errors, and as a result does not
> alter exit status if errors are found.
>     
> The in-kernel verifiers will be noisy about these errors and instruct
> the user to run repair, so it's best if repair is explicit about any
> fixes it makes as a result.
> 
> To ensure we catch anything the kernel would complain about, re-use
> xfs_dinode_verify to determine whether we must clear a free inode.
> 
> Note, however, that the verifier contains only a subset of the checks
> currently in clear_dinode.  This should be ok; if it's not, the checks
> should be added to the verifier in any case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks ok,
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

--D

> ---
> 
> diff --git a/libxfs/libxfs_api_defs.h b/libxfs/libxfs_api_defs.h
> index a98483b..05c06a7 100644
> --- a/libxfs/libxfs_api_defs.h
> +++ b/libxfs/libxfs_api_defs.h
> @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@
>  #define xfs_symlink_hdr_ok		libxfs_symlink_hdr_ok
>  
>  #define xfs_verify_cksum		libxfs_verify_cksum
> +#define xfs_dinode_verify		libxfs_dinode_verify
>  
>  #define xfs_alloc_ag_max_usable		libxfs_alloc_ag_max_usable
>  #define xfs_allocbt_maxrecs		libxfs_allocbt_maxrecs
> diff --git a/repair/dinode.c b/repair/dinode.c
> index d36338f..c0db15a 100644
> --- a/repair/dinode.c
> +++ b/repair/dinode.c
> @@ -2560,12 +2560,20 @@ _("bad (negative) size %" PRId64 " on inode %" PRIu64 "\n"),
>  		 */
>  		if (was_free) {
>  			/*
> -			 * easy case, inode free -- inode and map agree, clear
> +			 * easy case, inode free -- inode and map agree, check
>  			 * it just in case to ensure that format, etc. are
>  			 * set correctly
>  			 */
> -			if (!no_modify)
> -				*dirty += clear_dinode(mp, dino, lino);
> +			if (libxfs_dinode_verify(mp, lino, dino) != NULL) {
> +				do_warn(
> + _("free inode %" PRIu64 " contains errors, "), lino);
> +				if (!no_modify) {
> +					*dirty += clear_dinode(mp, dino, lino);
> +					do_warn(_("corrected\n"));
> +				} else {
> +					do_warn(_("would correct\n"));
> +				}
> +			}
>  			*used = is_free;
>  			return 0;
>  		}
> 
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