abort_on_error(9)

✨ abort_on_error(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — today's main character is abort_on_error(9), and she's here to tell you when a repair should just ✋ stop ✋. Let's get into it 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

abort_on_error — the vibe-check function that aborts a repair if there is an error. literally her whole job 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool abort_on_error (int result , struct repair_completion *repair );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• result — the result you want to check 👀 like, is this thing an error or not, bestie
• repair — the repair completion ✨ that's the struct repair_completion * she's working with

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🎀 RETURN 🎀

Returns true if the result was an error 💀 so like… if you get true back, something went wrong and the repair is not slaying today 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this list is long but we do NOT skip entries in this house 👑 every single one, fr fr:

• as_repair_completion(9)
• abort_repair(9)
• drain_slab_depot(9)
• flush_block_map_updates(9)
• handle_page_load_error(9)
• unmap_entry(9)
• remove_out_of_bounds_entries(9)
• process_slot(9)
• rebuild_reference_counts_from_page(9)
• page_loaded(9)
• fetch_page(9)
• rebuild_from_leaves(9)
• process_entry(9)
• advance_points(9)
• before_recovery_point(9)
• get_entry(9)
• validate_recovery_journal_entry(9)
• add_slab_journal_entries(9)
• vdo_replay_into_slab_journals(9)
• find_entry_starting_next_page(9)
• get_recovery_journal_block_header(9)
• is_valid_recovery_journal_block(9)
• is_exact_recovery_journal_block(9)
• find_recovery_journal_head_and_tail(9)
• unpack_entry(9)
• append_sector_entries(9)
• extract_new_mappings(9)
• compute_usages(9)
• vdo_repair(9)

and if you're wondering where all these live — the kernel file is ./drivers/md/dm-vdo/repair.c 🧚 iykyk

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💡 reminder bestie: abort_on_error only returns true when the result was an error. don't go reading anything else into it, no cap 🫶

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that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 huge slay for making it to the end of the see-also list, honestly iconic behavior 🌈

signed, sealed, delivered from ./drivers/md/dm-vdo — October 2026 edition 🎀✨