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From: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
To: Daniel Vacek <neelx@suse.com>, Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
Cc: Sun YangKai <sunk67188@gmail.com>,
	clm@fb.com, dsterba@suse.com, josef@toxicpanda.com,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: Accept and ignore compression level for lzo
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:33:11 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <663c2f5b-3bb1-4a40-b962-11c6d3a7f806@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPjX3FeOEg+QhkwKWe+qDH876bp6-t1GFO0sce7a6bmhM7umpw@mail.gmail.com>



在 2025/8/25 18:21, Daniel Vacek 写道:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 at 17:58, Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org> wrote:
>> From: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
>> Subject: [PATCH v3] btrfs: Accept and ignore compression level for lzo
>>
>> The compression level is meaningless for lzo, but before commit
>> 3f093ccb95f30 ("btrfs: harden parsing of compression mount options"),
>> it was silently ignored if passed.
>>
>> After that commit, passing a level with lzo fails to mount:
>>
>>      BTRFS error: unrecognized compression value lzo:1
>>
>> It seems reasonable for users to expect that lzo would permit a numeric
>> level option, as all the other algos do, even though the kernel's
>> implementation of LZO currently only supports a single level. Because it
>> has always worked to pass a level, it seems likely to me that users in
>> the real world are relying on doing so.
>>
>> This patch restores the old behavior, giving "lzo:N" the same semantics
>> as all of the other compression algos.
>>
>> To be clear, silly variants like "lzo:one", "lzo:the_first_option", or
>> "lzo:armageddon" also used to work. This isn't meant to suggest that
>> any possible mis-interpretation of mount options that once worked must
>> continue to work forever. This is an exceptional case where it makes
>> sense to preserve compatibility, both because the mis-interpretation is
>> reasonable, and because nothing tangible is sacrificed.
>>
>> Fixes: 3f093ccb95f30 ("btrfs: harden parsing of compression mount options")
>> Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
>> ---
>>   fs/btrfs/super.c | 7 +++++--
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> v3 looks good to me. The original hardening was meant to gate complete
> nonsense like "compress=lzoutput", etc...
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vacek <neelx@suse.com>

Now merged and pushed to for-next branch with the latest reviewed-by tags.

Thanks,
Qu
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
>> index a262b494a89f..18eb00b3639b 100644
>> --- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
>> @@ -299,9 +299,12 @@ static int btrfs_parse_compress(struct btrfs_fs_context *ctx,
>>                  btrfs_set_opt(ctx->mount_opt, COMPRESS);
>>                  btrfs_clear_opt(ctx->mount_opt, NODATACOW);
>>                  btrfs_clear_opt(ctx->mount_opt, NODATASUM);
>> -       } else if (btrfs_match_compress_type(string, "lzo", false)) {
>> +       } else if (btrfs_match_compress_type(string, "lzo", true)) {
>>                  ctx->compress_type = BTRFS_COMPRESS_LZO;
>> -               ctx->compress_level = 0;
>> +               ctx->compress_level = btrfs_compress_str2level(BTRFS_COMPRESS_LZO,
>> +                                                              string + 3);
>> +               if (string[3] == ':' && string[4])
>> +                       btrfs_warn(NULL, "Compression level ignored for LZO");
>>                  btrfs_set_opt(ctx->mount_opt, COMPRESS);
>>                  btrfs_clear_opt(ctx->mount_opt, NODATACOW);
>>                  btrfs_clear_opt(ctx->mount_opt, NODATASUM);
>> --
>> 2.49.1
>>


  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-25  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-22  7:45 Calvin Owens
2025-08-22  8:27 ` Qu Wenruo
2025-08-22  9:28   ` Calvin Owens
2025-08-22 10:18     ` Qu Wenruo
2025-08-22 18:45     ` David Sterba
2025-08-22 21:42       ` Calvin Owens
2025-08-22 10:20 ` Sun YangKai
2025-08-22 10:23   ` Qu Wenruo
2025-08-22 15:54     ` Calvin Owens
2025-08-22 18:57       ` David Sterba
2025-08-22 21:44       ` Qu Wenruo
2025-08-22 23:24         ` Calvin Owens
2025-08-22 23:39           ` Qu Wenruo
2025-08-24 15:58             ` Calvin Owens
2025-08-24 21:40               ` Qu Wenruo
2025-08-25  8:51               ` Daniel Vacek
2025-08-25  9:03                 ` Qu Wenruo [this message]
2025-08-25 11:37                   ` Filipe Manana
2025-08-22 18:42   ` Calvin Owens

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