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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2018-12-31 05:20:39 +0100
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2018-12-31 05:20:39 +0100
commite86807862e6880809f191c4cea7f88a489f0ed34 (patch)
treeee5fc629e5094ca12266b9fce0118f5ae469561a /fs
parentext4: fix a potential fiemap/page fault deadlock w/ inline_data (diff)
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ext4: avoid kernel warning when writing the superblock to a dead device
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 <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index d6c142d73d99..fb12d3c17c1b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4902,7 +4902,7 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync)
ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb);
if (sync)
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