ext4: avoid kernel warning when writing the superblock to a dead device
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Mon, 31 Dec 2018 04:20:39 +0000 (23:20 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:04:36 +0000 (22:04 +0100)
commit01db6e5cf81f905028de903f2290c10172226043
treea6f16d7459fd9b0e39cc83a64726dc5bc820298b
parent926cdac10439eda9ab7a11fd5f28eda203ccbb26
ext4: avoid kernel warning when writing the superblock to a dead device

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>
fs/ext4/super.c