Hi Changwei,

I just want to return exact errno to users so that they can fix
read-only problem rather than doing meaningless retry.

thanks,
Jun

On 2017/12/26 11:34, Changwei Ge wrote:
> Hi Jun,
> 
> What I concern is if we don't return -EROFS to mount.ocfs2, what bad result 
> will come?
> This patch is a bug fix or something else?
> Can you elaborate your intention of this patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> Changwei
> 
> On 2017/12/26 10:14, piaojun wrote:
>> If metadata is corrupted such as 'invalid inode block', we will get
>> failed by calling 'mount()' as below:
>>
>> ocfs2_mount
>>    ocfs2_initialize_super
>>      ocfs2_init_global_system_inodes : return -EINVAL if inode is NULL
>>        ocfs2_get_system_file_inode
>>          _ocfs2_get_system_file_inode : return NULL if inode is errno
>>            ocfs2_iget
>>              ocfs2_read_locked_inode
>>                ocfs2_validate_inode_block
>>
>> In this situation we need return -EROFS to upper application, so that
>> user can fix it by fsck. And then mount again.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jun Piao <piao...@huawei.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Alex Chen <alex.c...@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   fs/ocfs2/super.c | 10 ++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
>> index 040bbb6..dea21a7 100644
>> --- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
>> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
>> @@ -474,7 +474,10 @@ static int ocfs2_init_global_system_inodes(struct 
>> ocfs2_super *osb)
>>              new = ocfs2_get_system_file_inode(osb, i, osb->slot_num);
>>              if (!new) {
>>                      ocfs2_release_system_inodes(osb);
>> -                    status = -EINVAL;
>> +                    if (ocfs2_is_soft_readonly(osb))
>> +                            status = -EROFS;
>> +                    else
>> +                            status = -EINVAL;
>>                      mlog_errno(status);
>>                      /* FIXME: Should ERROR_RO_FS */
>>                      mlog(ML_ERROR, "Unable to load system inode %d, "
>> @@ -505,7 +508,10 @@ static int ocfs2_init_local_system_inodes(struct 
>> ocfs2_super *osb)
>>              new = ocfs2_get_system_file_inode(osb, i, osb->slot_num);
>>              if (!new) {
>>                      ocfs2_release_system_inodes(osb);
>> -                    status = -EINVAL;
>> +                    if (ocfs2_is_soft_readonly(osb))
>> +                            status = -EROFS;
>> +                    else
>> +                            status = -EINVAL;
>>                      mlog(ML_ERROR, "status=%d, sysfile=%d, slot=%d\n",
>>                           status, i, osb->slot_num);
>>                      goto bail;
>>
> 
> .
> 

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