[PATCH] btrfs: report filesystem shutdown via fserror

From: Miquel Sabaté Solà

Date: Sun Feb 15 2026 - 19:35:04 EST


Commit 347b7042fb26 ("Merge patch series "fs: generic file IO error
reporting"") has introduced a common framework for reporting errors to
fsnotify in a standard way.

One of the functions being introduced is 'fserror_report_shutdown' that,
when combined with the experimental support for shutdown in btrfs, it
means that user-space can also easily detect whenever a btrfs filesystem
has been marked as shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mssola@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Note that the for-next branch does not include the mentioned commit. I've
built and tested this patch on top of current Linus' tree.

fs/btrfs/fs.h | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/fs.h b/fs/btrfs/fs.h
index 3de3b517810e..92fcebf5766e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/fs.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/fs.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include "async-thread.h"
#include "block-rsv.h"
#include "messages.h"
+#include <linux/fserror.h>

struct inode;
struct super_block;
@@ -1199,8 +1200,10 @@ static inline void btrfs_force_shutdown(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
* So here we only mark the fs error without flipping it RO.
*/
WRITE_ONCE(fs_info->fs_error, -EIO);
- if (!test_and_set_bit(BTRFS_FS_STATE_EMERGENCY_SHUTDOWN, &fs_info->fs_state))
+ if (!test_and_set_bit(BTRFS_FS_STATE_EMERGENCY_SHUTDOWN, &fs_info->fs_state)) {
btrfs_crit(fs_info, "emergency shutdown");
+ fserror_report_shutdown(fs_info->sb, GFP_KERNEL);
+ }
}

/*
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