ext4: print more sysadmin-friendly message in check_block_validity()
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:21:26 +0000 (08:21 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:21:26 +0000 (08:21 -0400)
Drop the WARN_ON(1), as he stack trace is not appropriate, since it is
triggered by file system corruption, and it misleads users into
thinking there is a kernel bug.  In addition, change the message
displayed by ext4_error() to make it clear that this is a file system
corruption problem.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/inode.c

index 5c0d17066f4a6571021b073cbb1f03608f944f1a..6253ecdac67f10cf82920b56c5b5d9696e879377 100644 (file)
@@ -1121,16 +1121,15 @@ static void ext4_da_update_reserve_space(struct inode *inode, int used)
                ext4_discard_preallocations(inode);
 }
 
-static int check_block_validity(struct inode *inode, sector_t logical,
-                               sector_t phys, int len)
+static int check_block_validity(struct inode *inode, const char *msg,
+                               sector_t logical, sector_t phys, int len)
 {
        if (!ext4_data_block_valid(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb), phys, len)) {
-               ext4_error(inode->i_sb, "check_block_validity",
+               ext4_error(inode->i_sb, msg,
                           "inode #%lu logical block %llu mapped to %llu "
                           "(size %d)", inode->i_ino,
                           (unsigned long long) logical,
                           (unsigned long long) phys, len);
-               WARN_ON(1);
                return -EIO;
        }
        return 0;
@@ -1182,8 +1181,8 @@ int ext4_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, sector_t block,
        up_read((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem));
 
        if (retval > 0 && buffer_mapped(bh)) {
-               int ret = check_block_validity(inode, block,
-                                              bh->b_blocknr, retval);
+               int ret = check_block_validity(inode, "file system corruption",
+                                              block, bh->b_blocknr, retval);
                if (ret != 0)
                        return ret;
        }
@@ -1264,8 +1263,9 @@ int ext4_get_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, sector_t block,
 
        up_write((&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem));
        if (retval > 0 && buffer_mapped(bh)) {
-               int ret = check_block_validity(inode, block,
-                                              bh->b_blocknr, retval);
+               int ret = check_block_validity(inode, "file system "
+                                              "corruption after allocation",
+                                              block, bh->b_blocknr, retval);
                if (ret != 0)
                        return ret;
        }