linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: jbd2: fix an incorrect warn log

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Message-ID: <20230410174545.GA360877@frogsfrogsfrogs>
Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2023 10:45:45 -0700
From:   "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
To:     Guoqing Cai <u202112087@...t.edu.cn>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        HUST OS Kernel Contribution 
        <hust-os-kernel-patches@...glegroups.com>,
        Dongliang Mu <dzm91@...t.edu.cn>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: jbd2: fix an incorrect warn log

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 01:20:38AM +0800, Guoqing Cai wrote:
> In jbd2_journal_load(), when journal_reset fails, it prints an incorrect
> warn log.
> 
> Fix this by changing the goto statement to return statement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Cai <u202112087@...t.edu.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@...t.edu.cn>
> ---
>  fs/jbd2/journal.c | 12 +++++-------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> index e80c781731f8..555f09ca1d99 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
> @@ -2082,8 +2082,10 @@ int jbd2_journal_load(journal_t *journal)
>  
>  	/* Let the recovery code check whether it needs to recover any
>  	 * data from the journal. */
> -	if (jbd2_journal_recover(journal))
> -		goto recovery_error;
> +	if (jbd2_journal_recover(journal)) {
> +		printk(KERN_WARNING "JBD2: recovery failed\n");
> +		return -EIO;
> +	}
>  
>  	if (journal->j_failed_commit) {
>  		printk(KERN_ERR "JBD2: journal transaction %u on %s "
> @@ -2101,14 +2103,10 @@ int jbd2_journal_load(journal_t *journal)
>  	 * reinitialise the dynamic contents of the superblock in memory
>  	 * and reset them on disk. */
>  	if (journal_reset(journal))
> -		goto recovery_error;
> +		return -EIO;

Why wouldn't you warn about the journal reset failing here?

--D

>  
>  	journal->j_flags |= JBD2_LOADED;
>  	return 0;
> -
> -recovery_error:
> -	printk(KERN_WARNING "JBD2: recovery failed\n");
> -	return -EIO;
>  }
>  
>  /**
> -- 
> 2.40.0
>