Re: [RFC RFT PATCH] ocfs2: Mark inode bad upon validation failure during read

[Albin Babu Varghese]

Hi Heming, Thanks for the feedback.

> > I had one question about your proposal to combine this patch with
> > Albin's [1]. When you mentioned, "We should forbid any write
> > operations," were you referring to Albin's read-only check in
> > ocfs2_setattr as the mechanism to "forbid" the operation? Or
> > were you suggesting we should use the inode size sanity check
> > itself (e.g., by converting the BUG_ON to an -EIO return)
> > as that mechanism?
> > 
> 
> The 'forbid' refers to the read-only check in ocfs2_setattr.
> We can refer to ext4_setattr(), which calls ext4_emergency_state()
> to forbid write operations.

I just looked at the ext4 implementation you mentioned. When we were working on
it, I actually referenced how XFS's setattr was handling this because I
couldn't find the exact ext4 implementation for this at the time, so I wasn't
sure. From what I understand now, ext4 is doing something similar too.

If everything looks good, we can combine these two patches and send them as a
patch series.

Best,
	Albin