[PATCH 5.13 239/351] f2fs: remove false alarm on iget failure during GC

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jul 19 2021 - 13:43:10 EST


From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 132e3209789c647e37dc398ef36af4de13f104b4 ]

This patch removes setting SBI_NEED_FSCK when GC gets an error on f2fs_iget,
since f2fs_iget can give ENOMEM and others by race condition.
If we set this critical fsck flag, we'll get EIO during fsync via the below
code path.

In f2fs_inplace_write_data(),

if (is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK) || f2fs_cp_error(sbi)) {
err = -EIO;
goto drop_bio;
}

Fixes: 9557727876674 ("f2fs: drop inplace IO if fs status is abnormal")
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/gc.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index b40a2da90147..ab63951c08cb 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -1450,10 +1450,8 @@ next_step:

if (phase == 3) {
inode = f2fs_iget(sb, dni.ino);
- if (IS_ERR(inode) || is_bad_inode(inode)) {
- set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK);
+ if (IS_ERR(inode) || is_bad_inode(inode))
continue;
- }

if (!down_write_trylock(
&F2FS_I(inode)->i_gc_rwsem[WRITE])) {
--
2.30.2