Re: [PATCH 5/9] repair: detect CRC errors in AG headers

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 09:35:12AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Shouldn't we apply the same scheme as for directories here, that is if
> > it fails with a verifier error re-read without the verifier and then
> > still do the full check as well?
> 
> The directory code is the special case - it uses xfs_trans_read_buf*
> interfaces, which return either a good buffer with no error or an
> error with no buffer. Hence for the directory code, we have to
> re-read the buffer without the verifier to grab the unchecked buffer
> from the cache when the verifier detects an error.

How about just having a variant of xfs_da_read_buf that doesn't use
xfs_trans_read_buf *?  xfs_da_read_buf is pretty simple, especially
when removing the magic test that has been superceeded by the verifiers.