ACK,

Steve.

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 17:05 -0400, Bob Peterson wrote:
> >From 0f424f6c6a2b4fda8c5b9b2bc1cb246d868d3fec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Bob Peterson <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 16:20:14 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH 17/44] fsck.gfs2: Don't stop invalidating blocks if an
>  invalid one is found
> 
> When fsck found a duplicate reference to a block it invalidated the dinode's
> metadata.  But if it encountered an invalid block, for example, out of range,
> the invalidating would stop.  If we encounter a block that isn't valid, we
> obviously can't invalidate it.  However, if we return an error, all future
> invalidating will stop for that dinode.  That's wrong because we need it to
> continue to invalidate the other valid blocks.  If we don't do this, block
> references that follow the bad one that are also referenced elsewhere
> (duplicates) won't be flagged as such.  As a result, they'll be freed when
> this corrupt dinode is deleted, despite being used by another dinode as a
> valid block.  This patch makes it return a good return code so the 
> invalidating
> continues.
> 
> rhbz#675723
> ---
>  gfs2/fsck/pass1.c |   11 +++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gfs2/fsck/pass1.c b/gfs2/fsck/pass1.c
> index b9aa165..2b04227 100644
> --- a/gfs2/fsck/pass1.c
> +++ b/gfs2/fsck/pass1.c
> @@ -827,8 +827,15 @@ static int mark_block_invalid(struct gfs2_inode *ip, 
> uint64_t block,
>  {
>       uint8_t q;
>  
> -     if (!valid_block(ip->i_sbd, block) != 0)
> -             return -EFAULT;
> +     /* If the block isn't valid, we obviously can't invalidate it.
> +      * However, if we return an error, invalidating will stop, and
> +      * we want it to continue to invalidate the valid blocks.  If we
> +      * don't do this, block references that follow that are also
> +      * referenced elsewhere (duplicates) won't be flagged as such,
> +      * and as a result, they'll be freed when this dinode is deleted,
> +      * despite being used by another dinode as a valid block. */
> +     if (!valid_block(ip->i_sbd, block))
> +             return 0;
>  
>       q = block_type(block);
>       if (q != gfs2_block_free) {


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