Re: [PATCH 2/2] f2fs: Add error handling for negative returns from do_garbage_collect

[Chao Yu]

On 2023/12/22 11:29, Yongpeng Yang wrote:
> The function do_garbage_collect can return a value less than 0 due
> to f2fs_cp_error being true or page allocation failure, as a result
> of calling f2fs_get_sum_page. However, f2fs_gc does not account for
> such cases, which could potentially lead to an abnormal total_freed
> and thus cause subsequent code to behave unexpectedly. Given that
> an f2fs_cp_error is irrecoverable, and considering that
> do_garbage_collect already retries page allocation errors through
> its call to f2fs_get_sum_page->f2fs_get_meta_page_retry, any error
> reported by do_garbage_collect should immediately terminate the
> current GC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng1@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,