[PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr
From: Ahmet Eray Karadag
Date: Mon Nov 17 2025 - 19:27:54 EST
To centralize error checking, follow the pattern of other filesystems
like ext4 (which uses `ext4_emergency_state()`), and prepare for
future enhancements, this patch introduces a new helper function:
`ocfs2_emergency_state()`.
The purpose of this helper is to provide a single, unified location
for checking all filesystem-level emergency conditions. In this
initial implementation, the function only checks for the existing
hard and soft read-only modes, returning -EROFS if either is set.
This provides a foundation where future checks (e.g., for fatal error
states returning -EIO, or shutdown states) can be easily added in
one place.
This patch also adds this new check to the beginning of
`ocfs2_setattr()`. This ensures that operations like `ftruncate`
(which triggered the original BUG) fail-fast with -EROFS when the
filesystem is already in a read-only state.
Suggested-by: Heming Zhao <heming.zhao@xxxxxxxx>
Co-developed-by: Albin Babu Varghese <albinbabuvarghese20@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Albin Babu Varghese <albinbabuvarghese20@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ahmet Eray Karadag <eraykrdg1@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/file.c | 6 ++++++
fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 21d797ccccd0..03a98985ac92 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -1137,6 +1137,12 @@ int ocfs2_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
from_kgid(&init_user_ns, attr->ia_gid) : 0);
/* ensuring we don't even attempt to truncate a symlink */
+ status = ocfs2_emergency_state(osb);
+ if (status < 0) {
+ mlog_errno(status);
+ goto bail;
+ }
+
if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
attr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_SIZE;
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
index 6aaa94c554c1..2ac16632dd19 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2.h
@@ -680,6 +680,14 @@ static inline int ocfs2_is_soft_readonly(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
return ret;
}
+static inline int ocfs2_emergency_state(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
+{
+ if (ocfs2_is_soft_readonly(osb) || ocfs2_is_hard_readonly(osb)) {
+ return -EROFS;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
static inline int ocfs2_clusterinfo_valid(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
{
return (osb->s_feature_incompat &
--
2.43.0