ext4: avoid kernel warning when writing the superblock to a dead device

tytso · tytso · commit e86807862e68 · 2018-12-30T23:20:39.000-05:00
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 &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
diff --git 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
