[PATCH] fs: expand dump_inode()

From: Mateusz Guzik

Date: Tue Sep 09 2025 - 04:26:36 EST


This adds fs name and few fields from struct inode: i_mode, i_opflags,
i_flags and i_state.

All values printed raw, no attempt to pretty-print anything.

Compile tested on for i386 and runtime tested on amd64.

Sample output:
[ 31.450263] VFS_WARN_ON_INODE("crap") encountered for inode ffff9b10837a3240
fs sockfs mode 140777 opflags c flags 0 state 100

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx>
---

This is generated against master.

Depending on where this lands you might get a trivial merge conflict as
it gets rid of the whitespace issue also fixed in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/commit/?h=vfs-6.18.inode.refcount.preliminaries&id=90ccf10de527c0c9b117beddd09ee7ac38efaa5b

fs/inode.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 01ebdc40021e..fe7591186b6e 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -2911,10 +2911,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mode_strip_sgid);
*
* TODO: add a proper inode dumping routine, this is a stub to get debug off the
* ground.
+ *
+ * TODO: handle getting to fs type with get_kernel_nofault().
+ * See dump_mapping() above.
*/
void dump_inode(struct inode *inode, const char *reason)
{
- pr_warn("%s encountered for inode %px", reason, inode);
+ struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+
+ pr_warn("%s encountered for inode %px\n"
+ "fs %s mode %ho opflags %hx flags %u state %x\n",
+ reason, inode, sb->s_type->name, inode->i_mode, inode->i_opflags,
+ inode->i_flags, inode->i_state);
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_inode);
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2.43.0