Re: [PATCH] btrfs: report filesystem shutdown via fserror

[Miquel Sabaté Solà]

Filipe Manana @ 2026-02-18 11:54 GMT:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM Miquel Sabaté Solà <mssola@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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>
>
> Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Once the for-next branch is based on the next kernel rc that includes
> the new function, I can push the patch there.

Thanks for taking care of this!

>
> Thanks.
>
>> ---
>> 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);
>> +       }
>>  }
>>
>>  /*
>> --
>> 2.53.0
>>

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