linux-kernel - Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: remove false alarm on iget failure during GC

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Date:   Mon, 28 Jun 2021 23:43:26 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: remove false alarm on iget failure
 during GC

On 2021/6/23 4:22, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> This patch removes setting SBI_NEED_FSCK when GC gets an error on f2fs_iget,
> since f2fs_iget can give ENOMEM and others by race condition.
> If we set this critical fsck flag, we'll get EIO during fsync via the below
> code path.
> 
> In f2fs_inplace_write_data(),
> 
> 	if (is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK) || f2fs_cp_error(sbi)) {
> 		err = -EIO;
> 		goto drop_bio;
> 	}
> 
> Fixes: 9557727876674 ("f2fs: drop inplace IO if fs status is abnormal")
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>

Thanks,