From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6508C4360F for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2019 13:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE232146E for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2019 13:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731717AbfDBNkl (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2019 09:40:41 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:43600 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731509AbfDBNkL (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Apr 2019 09:40:11 -0400 Received: from [167.98.27.226] (helo=deadeye) by shadbolt.decadent.org.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hBJe4-0002ol-4i; Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:40:08 +0100 Received: from ben by deadeye with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hBJdy-0004xm-1i; Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:40:02 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov , "Theodore Ts'o" Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:38:28 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Subject: [PATCH 3.16 91/99] ext4: avoid kernel warning when writing the superblock to a dead device In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 167.98.27.226 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.16.65-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Theodore Ts'o commit e86807862e6880809f191c4cea7f88a489f0ed34 upstream. The xfstests generic/475 test switches the underlying device with dm-error while running a stress test. This results in a large number of file system errors, and since we can't lock the buffer head when marking the superblock dirty in the ext4_grp_locked_error() case, it's possible the superblock to be !buffer_uptodate() without buffer_write_io_error() being true. We need to set buffer_uptodate() before we call mark_buffer_dirty() or this will trigger a WARN_ON. It's safe to do this since the superblock must have been properly read into memory or the mount would have been successful. So if buffer_uptodate() is not set, we can safely assume that this happened due to a failed attempt to write the superblock. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -4712,7 +4712,7 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct supe BUFFER_TRACE(sbh, "marking dirty"); ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb); lock_buffer(sbh); - if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) { + if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh) || !buffer_uptodate(sbh)) { /* * Oh, dear. A previous attempt to write the * superblock failed. This could happen because the