[PATCH] ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev

[PATCH] ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev

[Eric Sandeen]

From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Under some circumstances we may encounter a filesystem error on a
read-only block device, and if we try to save the error info to the
superblock and commit it, we'll wind up with a noisy error and
backtrace, i.e.:

[ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
------------[ cut here ]------------
generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
...

To avoid this, commit the error info in the superblock only if the
block device is writable.

Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
---

(compile-tested only FWIW)
(also, not sure if the bdev test in __save_error_info should be removed?)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 0c7c4adb664e..55392903bda5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ static void save_error_info(struct super_block *sb, const char *func,
 			    unsigned int line)
 {
 	__save_error_info(sb, func, line);
-	ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
+	if (!bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev))
+		ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
 }
 
 /*

Re: [PATCH] ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev

[Andreas Dilger]

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On Mar 18, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> 
> Under some circumstances we may encounter a filesystem error on a
> read-only block device, and if we try to save the error info to the
> superblock and commit it, we'll wind up with a noisy error and
> backtrace, i.e.:
> 
> [ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
> WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
> ...
> 
> To avoid this, commit the error info in the superblock only if the
> block device is writable.
> 
> Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>

> ---
> 
> (compile-tested only FWIW)
> (also, not sure if the bdev test in __save_error_info should be removed?)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 0c7c4adb664e..55392903bda5 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ static void save_error_info(struct super_block *sb, const char *func,
> 			    unsigned int line)
> {
> 	__save_error_info(sb, func, line);
> -	ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
> +	if (!bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev))
> +		ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
> }
> 
> /*


Cheers, Andreas






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Re: [PATCH] ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev

[Theodore Y. Ts'o]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 02:19:38PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> 
> Under some circumstances we may encounter a filesystem error on a
> read-only block device, and if we try to save the error info to the
> superblock and commit it, we'll wind up with a noisy error and
> backtrace, i.e.:
> 
> [ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
> WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
> ...
> 
> To avoid this, commit the error info in the superblock only if the
> block device is writable.
> 
> Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted