[PATCH v2] Tools: hv: vssdaemon: ignore the EBUSY on multiple freezing the same partition

From: Dexuan Cui
Date: Mon Sep 22 2014 - 23:55:48 EST


v2: I added "errno = 0;" in the ioctl()

Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c
index 6a213b8..c1af658 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_vss_daemon.c
@@ -50,7 +50,35 @@ static int vss_do_freeze(char *dir, unsigned int cmd, char *fs_op)

if (fd < 0)
return 1;
+
+ /* A successful syscall doesn't set errno to 0. Without this line,
+ * the below strerror(errno) can accidently show the errno of the
+ * previous failed syscall.
+ */
+ errno = 0;
+
ret = ioctl(fd, cmd, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * If a partition is mounted more than once, only the first
+ * FREEZE/THAW can succeed and the later ones will get
+ * EBUSY/EINVAL respectively: there could be 2 cases:
+ * 1) a user may mount the same partition to differnt directories
+ * by mistake or on purpose;
+ * 2) The subvolume of btrfs appears to have the same partition
+ * mounted more than once.
+ */
+ if (ret) {
+ if ((cmd == FIFREEZE && errno == EBUSY) ||
+ (cmd == FITHAW && errno == EINVAL)) {
+ syslog(LOG_INFO, "VSS: %s of %s: %s: ignored\n",
+ fs_op, dir,
+ errno == EBUSY ? "EBUSY" : "EINVAL");
+ close(fd);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+
syslog(LOG_INFO, "VSS: %s of %s: %s\n", fs_op, dir, strerror(errno));
close(fd);
return !!ret;
--
1.9.1

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