linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Add ocfs2_emergency

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Message-ID: <f60d7b3669ee3bebc11895795bf1bc9c990fecea.1763337347.git.eraykrdg1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:26:44 +0300
From: Ahmet Eray Karadag <eraykrdg1@...il.com>
To: mark@...heh.com,
	jlbec@...lplan.org,
	joseph.qi@...ux.alibaba.com
Cc: ocfs2-devel@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	david.hunter.linux@...il.com,
	skhan@...uxfoundation.org,
	Ahmet Eray Karadag <eraykrdg1@...il.com>,
	Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@...e.com>,
	Albin Babu Varghese <albinbabuvarghese20@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr

To centralize error checking, follow the pattern of other filesystems
like ext4 (which uses `ext4_emergency_state()`), and prepare for
future enhancements, this patch introduces a new helper function:
`ocfs2_emergency_state()`.

The purpose of this helper is to provide a single, unified location
for checking all filesystem-level emergency conditions. In this
initial implementation, the function only checks for the existing
hard and soft read-only modes, returning -EROFS if either is set.

This provides a foundation where future checks (e.g., for fatal error
states returning -EIO, or shutdown states) can be easily added in
one place.

This patch also adds this new check to the beginning of
`ocfs2_setattr()`. This ensures that operations like `ftruncate`
(which triggered the original BUG) fail-fast with -EROFS when the
filesystem is already in a read-only state.

Suggested-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@...e.com>
Co-developed-by: Albin Babu Varghese <albinbabuvarghese20@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Albin Babu Varghese <albinbabuvarghese20@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmet Eray Karadag <eraykrdg1@...il.com>
---
 fs/ocfs2/file.c  | 6 ++++++
 fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 21d797ccccd0..03a98985ac92 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1137,6 +1137,12 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
 					from_kgid(&init_user_ns, attr->ia_gid) : 0);

 	/* ensuring we don't even attempt to truncate a symlink */
+	status = ocfs2_emergency_state(osb);
+	if (status < 0) {
+		mlog_errno(status);
+		goto bail;
+	}
+
 	if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
 		attr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_SIZE;

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
index 6aaa94c554c1..2ac16632dd19 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
@@ -680,6 +680,14 @@ static inline int ocfs2_is_soft_readonly(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
 	return ret;
 }

+static inline int ocfs2_emergency_state(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
+{
+	if (ocfs2_is_soft_readonly(osb) || ocfs2_is_hard_readonly(osb)) {
+		return -EROFS;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int ocfs2_clusterinfo_valid(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
 {
 	return (osb->s_feature_incompat &
-- 
2.43.0