[PATCH] f2fs: use EINVAL for invalid superblock

[PATCH] f2fs: use EINVAL for invalid superblock

[Icenowy Zheng]

The kernel mount_block_root() function expects -EACESS or -EINVAL for a
unmountable filesystem when trying to mount the root with different
filesystem types.

However, in 5.3-rc1 the behavior when F2FS code cannot find valid block
changed to return -EFSCORRUPTED(-EUCLEAN), and this error code makes
mount_block_root() fail when trying to probe F2FS. As invalid
superblocks mean the filesystem cannot be recognized as F2FS (it might
be another FS), returning -EINVAL seems more reasonable, and other
filesystems also do this.

Change back the return value to -EINVAL when no valid superblocks are
found.

Fixes: 10f966bbf521 ("f2fs: use generic EFSBADCRC/EFSCORRUPTED")
Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
---
This commit fixes a regression introduced in v5.3-rc1, which leads to
btrfs / cannot be mounted if no initrd is used and both f2fs and btrfs
are built-in.

 fs/f2fs/super.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 6de6cda44031..949309b9f1b8 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -2873,7 +2873,7 @@ static int read_raw_super_block(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
 		if (sanity_check_raw_super(sbi, bh)) {
 			f2fs_err(sbi, "Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in %dth superblock",
 				 block + 1);
-			err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
+			err = -EINVAL;
 			brelse(bh);
 			continue;
 		}
-- 
2.21.0

Re: [PATCH] f2fs: use EINVAL for invalid superblock

[Chao Yu]

Hi Icenowy,

Yes, I can see that mount_block_root() calls ksys_mount(), however it handles 0,
EACCES and EINVAL error code..., but as manual of mount(2) said that there are
lots of error number it can return, so I suggest we'd better fix below error
handling.

		int err = do_mount_root(name, p, flags, root_mount_data);
		switch (err) {
			case 0:
				goto out;
			case -EACCES:
			case -EINVAL:
				continue;
		}

In another point, I agreed that we should not just return -EFSCORRUPTED for all
failure cases of sanity_check_raw_super(), EINVAL should be returned correctly
if the filesystem magic number is not f2fs' one, and EFSCORRUPTED for the other
cases.

Thanks,

On 2019/7/24 21:06, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> The kernel mount_block_root() function expects -EACESS or -EINVAL for a
> unmountable filesystem when trying to mount the root with different
> filesystem types.
> 
> However, in 5.3-rc1 the behavior when F2FS code cannot find valid block
> changed to return -EFSCORRUPTED(-EUCLEAN), and this error code makes
> mount_block_root() fail when trying to probe F2FS. As invalid
> superblocks mean the filesystem cannot be recognized as F2FS (it might
> be another FS), returning -EINVAL seems more reasonable, and other
> filesystems also do this.
> 
> Change back the return value to -EINVAL when no valid superblocks are
> found.
> 
> Fixes: 10f966bbf521 ("f2fs: use generic EFSBADCRC/EFSCORRUPTED")
> Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io>
> ---
> This commit fixes a regression introduced in v5.3-rc1, which leads to
> btrfs / cannot be mounted if no initrd is used and both f2fs and btrfs
> are built-in.
> 
>  fs/f2fs/super.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> index 6de6cda44031..949309b9f1b8 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> @@ -2873,7 +2873,7 @@ static int read_raw_super_block(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
>  		if (sanity_check_raw_super(sbi, bh)) {
>  			f2fs_err(sbi, "Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in %dth superblock",
>  				 block + 1);
> -			err = -EFSCORRUPTED;
> +			err = -EINVAL;
>  			brelse(bh);
>  			continue;
>  		}
>