If we're going to have a fix for false root problems its a good idea to let people know that there's a way to recover, error out with a useful message that mentions the `-x` option rather than just assert. Before xfsrestore: searching media for directory dump xfsrestore: reading directories xfsrestore: tree.c:757: tree_begindir: Assertion `ino != persp->p_rootino || hardh == persp->p_rooth' failed. Aborted After xfsrestore: ERROR: tree.c:791: tree_begindir: Assertion `ino != persp->p_rootino || hardh == persp->p_rooth` failed. xfsrestore: ERROR: False root detected. Recovery may be possible using the `-x` option Aborted Fixes: d7cba7410710 ("xfsrestore: fix rootdir due to xfsdump bulkstat misuse") Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <ddouwsma@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes for v2 - Use xfsprogs style for conditional - Remove trailing white-space - Place printf format all on one line for grepability - use __func__ instead of gcc specific __FUNCTION__ Changes for v3 - Fix indentation of if statement --- restore/tree.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/restore/tree.c b/restore/tree.c index bfa07fe..6f3180f 100644 --- a/restore/tree.c +++ b/restore/tree.c @@ -783,8 +783,15 @@ tree_begindir(filehdr_t *fhdrp, dah_t *dahp) /* lookup head of hardlink list */ hardh = link_hardh(ino, gen); - if (need_fixrootdir == BOOL_FALSE) - assert(ino != persp->p_rootino || hardh == persp->p_rooth); + if (need_fixrootdir == BOOL_FALSE && + !(ino != persp->p_rootino || hardh == persp->p_rooth)) { + mlog(MLOG_ERROR | MLOG_TREE, +"%s:%d: %s: Assertion `ino != persp->p_rootino || hardh == persp->p_rooth` failed.\n", + __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__); + mlog(MLOG_ERROR | MLOG_TREE, _( +"False root detected. Recovery may be possible using the `-x` option\n")); + return NH_NULL; + } /* already present */ -- 2.39.3