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Commit e3a4167c authored by David Sterba's avatar David Sterba
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btrfs: add error messages to all unrecognized mount options

Almost none of the errors stemming from a valid mount option but wrong
value prints a descriptive message which would help to identify why
mount failed. Like in the linked report:

  $ uname -r
  v4.19
  $ mount -o compress=zstd /dev/sdb /mnt
  mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
  /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
  $ dmesg
  ...
  BTRFS error (device sdb): open_ctree failed

Errors caused by memory allocation failures are left out as it's not a
user error so reporting that would be confusing.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/9c3fec36-fc61-3a33-4977-a7e207c3fa4e@gmx.de/


CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+
Reviewed-by: default avatarQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAnand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 0591f040
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