From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, jlayton@kernel.org,
amir73il@gmail.com, sargun@sargun.me, miklos@szeredi.hu,
willy@infradead.org, jack@suse.cz, neilb@suse.com,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] vfs: Do not ignore return code from s_op->sync_fs
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:17:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201222151752.GA3248@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s9qmy68.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 12:23:11PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
[...]
> > diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
> > index 1373a610dc78..b5fb83a734cd 100644
> > --- a/fs/sync.c
> > +++ b/fs/sync.c
> > @@ -30,14 +30,18 @@
> > */
> > static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
> > {
> > + int ret, ret2;
> > +
> > if (wait)
> > sync_inodes_sb(sb);
> > else
> > writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC);
> >
> > if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
> > - sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);
> > - return __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, wait);
> > + ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);
> > + ret2 = __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, wait);
> > +
> > + return ret ? ret : ret2;
>
> I'm surprised that the compiler didn't complain that 'ret' might be used
> uninitialized.
Indeed. That "ret" can be used uninitialized. Here is the fixed patch.
Subject: vfs: Do not ignore return code from s_op->sync_fs
Current implementation of __sync_filesystem() ignores the
return code from ->sync_fs(). I am not sure why that's the case.
Ignoring ->sync_fs() return code is problematic for overlayfs where
it can return error if sync_filesystem() on upper super block failed.
That error will simply be lost and sycnfs(overlay_fd), will get
success (despite the fact it failed).
Al Viro noticed that there are other filesystems which can sometimes
return error in ->sync_fs() and these errors will be ignored too.
fs/btrfs/super.c:2412: .sync_fs = btrfs_sync_fs,
fs/exfat/super.c:204: .sync_fs = exfat_sync_fs,
fs/ext4/super.c:1674: .sync_fs = ext4_sync_fs,
fs/f2fs/super.c:2480: .sync_fs = f2fs_sync_fs,
fs/gfs2/super.c:1600: .sync_fs = gfs2_sync_fs,
fs/hfsplus/super.c:368: .sync_fs = hfsplus_sync_fs,
fs/nilfs2/super.c:689: .sync_fs = nilfs_sync_fs,
fs/ocfs2/super.c:139: .sync_fs = ocfs2_sync_fs,
fs/overlayfs/super.c:399: .sync_fs = ovl_sync_fs,
fs/ubifs/super.c:2052: .sync_fs = ubifs_sync_fs,
Hence, this patch tries to fix it and capture error returned
by ->sync_fs() and return to caller. I am specifically interested
in syncfs() path and return error to user.
I am assuming that we want to continue to call __sync_blockdev()
despite the fact that there have been errors reported from
->sync_fs(). So this patch continues to call __sync_blockdev()
even if ->sync_fs() returns an error.
Al noticed that there are few other callsites where ->sync_fs() error
code is being ignored.
sync_fs_one_sb(): For this it seems desirable to ignore the return code.
dquot_disable(): Jan Kara mentioned that ignoring return code here is fine
because we don't want to fail dquot_disable() just beacuse
caches might be incoherent.
dquot_quota_sync(): Jan thinks that it might make some sense to capture
return code here. But I am leaving it untouched for
now. When somebody needs it, they can easily fix it.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
---
fs/sync.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: redhat-linux/fs/sync.c
===================================================================
--- redhat-linux.orig/fs/sync.c 2020-12-22 09:56:04.543483440 -0500
+++ redhat-linux/fs/sync.c 2020-12-22 10:01:28.560483440 -0500
@@ -30,14 +30,18 @@
*/
static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
{
+ int ret = 0, ret2;
+
if (wait)
sync_inodes_sb(sb);
else
writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC);
if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
- sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);
- return __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, wait);
+ ret = sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);
+ ret2 = __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, wait);
+
+ return ret ? ret : ret2;
}
/*
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-22 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-21 19:50 [RFC PATCH 0/3][v3] vfs, overlayfs: Fix syncfs() to return correct errors Vivek Goyal
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] vfs: Do not ignore return code from s_op->sync_fs Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 1:23 ` NeilBrown
2020-12-22 15:17 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] vfs: Add a super block operation to check for writeback errors Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 16:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 16:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-23 12:44 ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-23 12:48 ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 19:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] overlayfs: Report writeback errors on upper Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 16:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 16:29 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 17:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 17:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-23 12:53 ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-23 18:20 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 18:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-23 19:29 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 20:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-23 20:21 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 20:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-24 9:32 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-24 10:12 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-24 12:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-25 6:50 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-28 13:25 ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-28 15:51 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 15:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-28 15:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-28 17:26 ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-28 19:25 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-28 19:37 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-28 20:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-02 13:25 ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 16:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 15:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 15:22 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 15:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 21:42 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 22:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-05 7:11 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-05 16:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-05 16:57 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-23 19:00 ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 20:00 ` Vivek Goyal
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