Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: reset free segment to prefree status when do_checkpoint() fail

[Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>]

Ping,

On 2021/7/20 8:04, Chao Yu wrote:
> On 2021/7/20 2:25, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
>> On 07/19, Chao Yu wrote:
>>> On 2021/4/27 20:37, Chao Yu wrote:
>>>> I think just reverting dirty/free bitmap is not enough if checkpoint fails,
>>>> due to we have updated sbi->cur_cp_pack and nat/sit bitmap, next CP tries
>>>> to overwrite last valid meta/node/data, then filesystem will be corrupted.
>>>>
>>>> So I suggest to set cp_error if do_checkpoint() fails until we can handle
>>>> all cases, which is not so easy.
>>>>
>>>> How do you think?
>>>
>>> Let's add below patch first before you figure out the patch which covers all
>>> things.
>>>
>>>   From 3af957c98e9e04259f8bb93ca0b74ba164f3f27e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> From: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
>>> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:37:44 +0800
>>> Subject: [PATCH] f2fs: fix to stop filesystem update once CP failed
>>>
>>> During f2fs_write_checkpoint(), once we failed in
>>> f2fs_flush_nat_entries() or do_checkpoint(), metadata of filesystem
>>> such as prefree bitmap, nat/sit version bitmap won't be recovered,
>>> it may cause f2fs image to be inconsistent, let's just set CP error
>>> flag to avoid further updates until we figure out a scheme to rollback
>>> all metadatas in such condition.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
>>> ---
>>>    fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 10 +++++++---
>>>    1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
>>> index 6c208108d69c..096c85022f62 100644
>>> --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
>>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
>>> @@ -1639,8 +1639,10 @@ int f2fs_write_checkpoint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct cp_control *cpc)
>>>
>>>    	/* write cached NAT/SIT entries to NAT/SIT area */
>>>    	err = f2fs_flush_nat_entries(sbi, cpc);
>>> -	if (err)
>>> +	if (err) {
>>> +		f2fs_stop_checkpoint(sbi, false);
>>
>> I think we should abuse this, since we can get any known ENOMEM as well.
> 
> Yup, but one critical issue here is it can break A/B update of NAT area,
> so, in order to fix this hole, how about using NOFAIL memory allocation
> in f2fs_flush_nat_entries() first until we figure out the finial scheme?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>>
>>>    		goto stop;
>>> +	}
>>>
>>>    	f2fs_flush_sit_entries(sbi, cpc);
>>>
>>> @@ -1648,10 +1650,12 @@ int f2fs_write_checkpoint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct cp_control *cpc)
>>>    	f2fs_save_inmem_curseg(sbi);
>>>
>>>    	err = do_checkpoint(sbi, cpc);
>>> -	if (err)
>>> +	if (err) {
>>> +		f2fs_stop_checkpoint(sbi, false);
>>>    		f2fs_release_discard_addrs(sbi);
>>> -	else
>>> +	} else {
>>>    		f2fs_clear_prefree_segments(sbi, cpc);
>>> +	}
>>>
>>>    	f2fs_restore_inmem_curseg(sbi);
>>>    stop:
>>> -- 
>>> 2.22.1
> 
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