[PATCH v2 5/5] ntfs: report shutdown errors to fsnotify

From: Baolin Liu

Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 22:25:52 EST


From: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Notify FAN_FS_ERROR listeners when NTFS enters forced shutdown
after FS_IOC_SHUTDOWN or backing-device removal. Keep the shutdown
state transition and notification together in a dedicated helper.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ntfs/super.c | 12 +++++++++---
fs/ntfs/volume.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
index 7f6812d27fd1..a331188286da 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
@@ -352,6 +352,12 @@ void ntfs_report_file_metadata_error(struct inode *inode, int error)
fserror_report_file_metadata(inode, error, GFP_ATOMIC);
}

+void ntfs_report_shutdown(struct ntfs_volume *vol)
+{
+ NVolSetShutdown(vol);
+ fserror_report_shutdown(vol->sb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+
void ntfs_handle_error(struct super_block *sb)
{
struct ntfs_volume *vol = NTFS_SB(sb);
@@ -368,7 +374,7 @@ void ntfs_handle_error(struct super_block *sb)
sb->s_id);
} else if (vol->on_errors == ON_ERRORS_CONTINUE) {
if (errseq_check(&sb->s_wb_err, vol->wb_err) == -ENODEV) {
- NVolSetShutdown(vol);
+ ntfs_report_shutdown(vol);
vol->wb_err = sb->s_wb_err;
}
}
@@ -1911,10 +1917,10 @@ int ntfs_force_shutdown(struct super_block *sb, u32 flags)
if (ret)
return ret;
bdev_thaw(sb->s_bdev);
- NVolSetShutdown(vol);
+ ntfs_report_shutdown(vol);
break;
case FS_SHUTDOWN_FLAGS_NOLOGFLUSH:
- NVolSetShutdown(vol);
+ ntfs_report_shutdown(vol);
break;
default:
return -EINVAL;
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/volume.h b/fs/ntfs/volume.h
index 7daac7048a4c..09f92dc1117b 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/volume.h
+++ b/fs/ntfs/volume.h
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ DEFINE_NVOL_BIT_OPS(SymlinkNative)

void ntfs_report_metadata_error(struct ntfs_volume *vol, int error);
void ntfs_report_file_metadata_error(struct inode *inode, int error);
+void ntfs_report_shutdown(struct ntfs_volume *vol);

static inline void ntfs_inc_free_clusters(struct ntfs_volume *vol, s64 nr)
{
--
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