linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix incorrect return value in f2fs_sanity_check

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Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:19:54 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To:     jaegeuk@...nel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Cc:     linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] f2fs: fix incorrect return value in
 f2fs_sanity_check_ckpt()

Jaegeuk,

Missed to apply this patch?

Thanks,

On 2021/9/24 17:50, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> This code looks quite confused: part of function returns 1 on
>> corruption, part returns -errno. The problem is not stable-specific.
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/9/19/207
>>
>> Let's fix to make 'insane cp_payload case' to return 1 rater than
>> EFSCORRUPTED, so that return value can be kept consistent for all
>> error cases, it can avoid confusion of code logic.
>>
>> Fixes: 65ddf6564843 ("f2fs: fix to do sanity check for sb/cp fields correctly")
>> Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
> 
> (This is good minimal fix, but eventually I believe the function
> should switch to 0/-errno... for consistency with rest of kernel).
> 
> Thank you,
> 								Pavel
> 								
>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
>> @@ -3487,7 +3487,7 @@ int f2fs_sanity_check_ckpt(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
>>   		NR_CURSEG_PERSIST_TYPE + nat_bits_blocks >= blocks_per_seg)) {
>>   		f2fs_warn(sbi, "Insane cp_payload: %u, nat_bits_blocks: %u)",
>>   			  cp_payload, nat_bits_blocks);
>> -		return -EFSCORRUPTED;
>> +		return 1;
>>   	}
>>   
>>   	if (unlikely(f2fs_cp_error(sbi))) {
>