ext4: fix WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer_uptodate) after an error writing the superblock
authorYe Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:05:37 +0000 (17:05 +0800)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 14:58:04 +0000 (10:58 -0400)
commit558d6450c7755aa005d89021204b6cdcae5e848f
treefae68b29b1e6d56a6ed17df8f9ec255c1280ef5f
parent8813587a996e7d2ae160be3b79f9f70d9fef4583
ext4: fix WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer_uptodate) after an error writing the superblock

If a writeback of the superblock fails with an I/O error, the buffer
is marked not uptodate.  However, this can cause a WARN_ON to trigger
when we attempt to write superblock a second time.  (Which might
succeed this time, for cerrtain types of block devices such as iSCSI
devices over a flaky network.)

Try to detect this case in flush_stashed_error_work(), and also change
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() so we always set the uptodate flag, not
just in the nojournal case.

Before this commit, this problem can be repliciated via:

1. dmsetup  create dust1 --table  '0 2097152 dust /dev/sdc 0 4096'
2. mount  /dev/mapper/dust1  /home/test
3. dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 0 10
4. cd /home/test
5. echo "XXXXXXX" > t

After a few seconds, we got following warning:

[   80.654487] end_buffer_async_write: bh=0xffff88842f18bdd0
[   80.656134] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 0, lost async page write
[   85.774450] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_check_bdev_write_error:193: comm kworker/u16:8: Error while async write back metadata
[   91.415513] mark_buffer_dirty: bh=0xffff88842f18bdd0
[   91.417038] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   91.418450] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1944 at fs/buffer.c:1092 mark_buffer_dirty.cold+0x1c/0x5e
[   91.440322] Call Trace:
[   91.440652]  __jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer+0x135/0x220
[   91.441354]  __jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer+0x24/0x90
[   91.441981]  __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer+0x134/0x1d0
[   91.442628]  jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x249a/0x3240
[   91.443336]  ? put_prev_entity+0x2a/0x200
[   91.443856]  ? kjournald2+0x12e/0x510
[   91.444324]  kjournald2+0x12e/0x510
[   91.444773]  ? woken_wake_function+0x30/0x30
[   91.445326]  kthread+0x150/0x1b0
[   91.445739]  ? commit_timeout+0x20/0x20
[   91.446258]  ? kthread_flush_worker+0xb0/0xb0
[   91.446818]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[   91.447293] ---[ end trace 66f0b6bf3d1abade ]---

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210615090537.3423231-1-yebin10@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
fs/ext4/super.c