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

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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 <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Theodore Ts'o 2018-12-30 23:20:39 -05:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent b4727299f5
commit b17971aeaf
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@ -4844,7 +4844,7 @@ 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