Re: Internal error xfs_sb_read_verify at line 726

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On 2013.05.06 at 14:14 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 5/6/13 1:30 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2013.05.06 at 12:04 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> On 5/6/13 6:27 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> >>> Today I accidentally tried to mount my backup disk at /dev/sdc instead
> >>> of /dev/sdc1 and this is what happened:
> >>>
> >>> ...
> >>> EXT4-fs (sdc): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem
> >>> FAT-fs (sdc): bogus number of reserved sectors
> >>> FAT-fs (sdc): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
> >>> FAT-fs (sdc): bogus number of reserved sectors
> >>> FAT-fs (sdc): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem
> >>> ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
> >>> XFS (sdc): bad magic number
> >>> ffff8800db620000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >>> ffff8800db620010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >>> ffff8800db620020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >>> ffff8800db620030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >>> XFS (sdc): Internal error xfs_sb_read_verify at line 726 of file fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c.  Caller 0xffffffff8119e5cd
> >>
> >> This seems to be a recent regression.
> >>
> >> Comments above xfs_sb_quiet_read_verify() indicate that this behavior is
> >> to be avoided:
> >>
> >>  * We may be probed for a filesystem match, so we may not want to emit
> >>  * messages when the superblock buffer is not actually an XFS superblock.
> >>
> >> and it checks for proper magic prior to all the chattiness above int
> >> that function.
> >>
> >> The superblock read is suposed to choose whether to be noisy or not,
> >> in xfs_readsb():
> >>
> > 
> > The following patch fixes the issue for me:
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> > index f6bfbd7..db8f27f 100644
> > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> > @@ -721,6 +721,11 @@ xfs_sb_read_verify(
> >  	}
> >  	error = xfs_sb_verify(bp);
> >  
> > +	if (error == XFS_ERROR(EWRONGFS)) {
> > +		xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, EWRONGFS);
> > +		return;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  out_error:
> >  	if (error) {
> >  		XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR(__func__, XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW, mp, bp->b_addr);
> 
> That might make sense, I don't think we need the loudness for EWRONGFS
> no matter how we got there.  
> 
> But:
> 
> Out of curiosity, what was the actual mount command you used?  It seems like
> the auto-probing should have set the MS_SILENT flag to avoid this in
> the first place, i.e. we should have gone down the quiet path
> (xfs_sb_quiet_read_verify) and avoided this altogether.
> 
> How do you reproduce this?

I power on the drive and simply run:

 # mount /dev/sdc /mnt

> If I were to patch xfs_read_sb_verify, I'd probably do it like this:
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> index f6bfbd7..7488335 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
> @@ -723,7 +723,9 @@ xfs_sb_read_verify(
>  
>  out_error:
>  	if (error) {
> -		XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR(__func__, XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW, mp, bp->b_addr);
> +		if (error != EWRONGFS)
> +			XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR(__func__, XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW,
> +					     mp, bp->b_addr);
>  		xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, error);
>  	}
>  }
> 
> Because it keeps a single return point in the function, and . . .
> 
> XFS_ERROR() is never used on the right side of a test; it's only to turn an error
> return into a BUG_ON for certain error numbers when they're set;

OK, makes sense. Thanks. 
I like your patch better, so lets use it.

-- 
Markus

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