Re: [PATCH v3] hfs: remove BUG() from hfs_release_folio()/hfs_test_inode()/hfs_write_inode()
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jul 17 2025 - 15:36:01 EST
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:32:46AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> +++ b/fs/hfs/inode.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ static bool hfs_release_folio(struct folio *folio, gfp_t mask)
> tree = HFS_SB(sb)->cat_tree;
> break;
> default:
> - BUG();
> + pr_err("detected unknown inode %lu, running fsck.hfs is recommended.\n",
> + inode->i_ino);
As I asked the first time, how can we get here? In order to release a
folio, we have to first populate the pagecache of the inode with folios.
How did we manage to do that for an inode with a bogus i_ino?
> @@ -441,7 +442,8 @@ int hfs_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
> hfs_btree_write(HFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->cat_tree);
> return 0;
> default:
> - BUG();
> + pr_err("detected unknown inode %lu, running fsck.hfs is recommended.\n",
> + inode->i_ino);
Similarly here, how did we manage to mark a bad inode as dirty?