xfs: limit superblock corruption errors to actual corruption
authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:39:35 +0000 (15:39 +1100)
committerDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:39:35 +0000 (15:39 +1100)
Today, if

xfs_sb_read_verify
  xfs_sb_verify
    xfs_mount_validate_sb

detects superblock corruption, it'll be extremely noisy, dumping
2 stacks, 2 hexdumps, etc.

This is because we call XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR in xfs_mount_validate_sb
as well as in xfs_sb_read_verify.

Also, *any* errors in xfs_mount_validate_sb which are not corruption
per se; things like too-big-blocksize, bad version, bad magic, v1 dirs,
rw-incompat etc - things which do not return EFSCORRUPTED - will
still do the whole XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR spew when xfs_sb_read_verify
sees any error at all.  And it suggests to the user that they
should run xfs_repair, even if the root cause of the mount failure
is a simple incompatibility.

I'll submit that the probably-not-corrupted errors don't warrant
this much noise, so this patch removes the warning for anything
other than EFSCORRUPTED returns, and replaces the lower-level
XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR with an xfs_notice().

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_sb.c

index 359b19a4df42d85c9f9f55f33b77a610e06c082c..1e116794bb6622d686487f36a461f8f644fd27c2 100644 (file)
@@ -295,8 +295,7 @@ xfs_mount_validate_sb(
            sbp->sb_dblocks == 0                                        ||
            sbp->sb_dblocks > XFS_MAX_DBLOCKS(sbp)                      ||
            sbp->sb_dblocks < XFS_MIN_DBLOCKS(sbp))) {
-               XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR("SB sanity check failed",
-                               XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW, mp, sbp);
+               xfs_notice(mp, "SB sanity check failed");
                return XFS_ERROR(EFSCORRUPTED);
        }
 
@@ -625,7 +624,7 @@ xfs_sb_read_verify(
 
 out_error:
        if (error) {
-               if (error != EWRONGFS)
+               if (error == EFSCORRUPTED)
                        XFS_CORRUPTION_ERROR(__func__, XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW,
                                             mp, bp->b_addr);
                xfs_buf_ioerror(bp, error);