Patch "xfs: do not check NEEDSREPAIR if ro,norecovery mount." has been added to the 6.12-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    xfs: do not check NEEDSREPAIR if ro,norecovery mount.

to the 6.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     xfs-do-not-check-needsrepair-if-ro-norecovery-mount.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


From [email protected] Mon Apr 28 20:39:33 2025
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:39:19 -0700
Subject: xfs: do not check NEEDSREPAIR if ro,norecovery mount.
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Message-ID: <174586545399.480536.11556523767440235148.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs>

From: Lukas Herbolt <[email protected]>

Commit 9e00163c31676c6b43d2334fdf5b406232f42dee upstream

If there is corrutpion on the filesystem andxfs_repair
fails to repair it. The last resort of getting the data
is to use norecovery,ro mount. But if the NEEDSREPAIR is
set the filesystem cannot be mounted. The flag must be
cleared out manually using xfs_db, to get access to what
left over of the corrupted fs.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Herbolt <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1619,8 +1619,12 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
 #endif
 	}
 
-	/* Filesystem claims it needs repair, so refuse the mount. */
-	if (xfs_has_needsrepair(mp)) {
+	/*
+	 * Filesystem claims it needs repair, so refuse the mount unless
+	 * norecovery is also specified, in which case the filesystem can
+	 * be mounted with no risk of further damage.
+	 */
+	if (xfs_has_needsrepair(mp) && !xfs_has_norecovery(mp)) {
 		xfs_warn(mp, "Filesystem needs repair.  Please run xfs_repair.");
 		error = -EFSCORRUPTED;
 		goto out_free_sb;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-6.12/xfs-do-not-check-needsrepair-if-ro-norecovery-mount.patch
queue-6.12/xfs-do-not-allow-norecovery-mount-with-quotacheck.patch
queue-6.12/iomap-skip-unnecessary-ifs_block_is_uptodate-check.patch
queue-6.12/xfs-flush-inodegc-before-swapon.patch
queue-6.12/xfs-rename-xfs_iomap_swapfile_activate-to-xfs_vm_swap_activate.patch