Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: avoid attaching SB_ACTIVE flag during mount

From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Fri Sep 03 2021 - 20:17:59 EST


I remember this gave a regression before?

On 09/01, Chao Yu wrote:
> Quoted from [1]
>
> "I do remember that I've added this code back then because otherwise
> orphan cleanup was losing updates to quota files. But you're right
> that now I don't see how that could be happening and it would be nice
> if we could get rid of this hack"
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/99cce8ca-e4a0-7301-840f-2ace67c551f3@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m04990cfbc4f44592421736b504afcc346b2a7c00
>
> Related fix in ext4 by
> commit 72ffb49a7b62 ("ext4: do not set SB_ACTIVE in ext4_orphan_cleanup()").
>
> f2fs has the same hack implementation in
> - f2fs_recover_orphan_inodes()
> - f2fs_recover_fsync_data()
>
> Let's get rid of this hack as well in f2fs.
>
> Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> - don't bother checkpoint disabling path
> fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 3 ---
> fs/f2fs/recovery.c | 8 ++------
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> index 83e9bc0f91ff..7d8803a4cbc2 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> @@ -705,9 +705,6 @@ int f2fs_recover_orphan_inodes(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
> - /* Needed for iput() to work correctly and not trash data */
> - sbi->sb->s_flags |= SB_ACTIVE;
> -
> /*
> * Turn on quotas which were not enabled for read-only mounts if
> * filesystem has quota feature, so that they are updated correctly.
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
> index 04655511d7f5..706ddb3c95c0 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
> @@ -787,8 +787,6 @@ int f2fs_recover_fsync_data(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool check_only)
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
> - /* Needed for iput() to work correctly and not trash data */
> - sbi->sb->s_flags |= SB_ACTIVE;
> /* Turn on quotas so that they are updated correctly */
> quota_enabled = f2fs_enable_quota_files(sbi, s_flags & SB_RDONLY);
> #endif
> @@ -816,10 +814,8 @@ int f2fs_recover_fsync_data(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool check_only)
> err = recover_data(sbi, &inode_list, &tmp_inode_list, &dir_list);
> if (!err)
> f2fs_bug_on(sbi, !list_empty(&inode_list));
> - else {
> - /* restore s_flags to let iput() trash data */
> - sbi->sb->s_flags = s_flags;
> - }
> + else
> + f2fs_bug_on(sbi, sbi->sb->s_flags & SB_ACTIVE);
> skip:
> fix_curseg_write_pointer = !check_only || list_empty(&inode_list);
>
> --
> 2.32.0