Re: [PATCH v23.2 4/4] xfs: don't return -EFSCORRUPTED from repair when resources cannot be grabbed

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On Fri, Nov 04, 2022 at 01:35:44PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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.

<groan> this wording is vague, i'll try again...

--D

>  		 */
> -		return -EFSCORRUPTED;
> +		return 0;
>  	default:
>  		/*
>  		 * EAGAIN tells the caller to re-scrub, so we cannot return



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