From ae1495b12df1897d4f42842a7aa7276d920f6290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 09:31:36 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: call ext4_error_inode() if jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() fails While it's true that errors can only happen if there is a bug in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(), if a bug does happen, we need to halt the kernel or remount the file system read-only in order to avoid further data loss. The ext4_journal_abort_handle() function doesn't do any of this, and while it's likely that this call (since it doesn't adjust refcounts) will likely result in the file system eventually deadlocking since the current transaction will never be able to close, it's much cleaner to call let ext4's error handling system deal with this situation. There's a separate bug here which is that if certain jbd2 errors errors occur and file system is mounted errors=continue, the file system will probably eventually end grind to a halt as described above. But things have been this way in a long time, and usually when we have these sorts of errors it's pretty much a disaster --- and that's why the jbd2 layer aggressively retries memory allocations, which is the most likely cause of these jbd2 errors. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c index 17ac112ab101..3fe29de832c8 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c @@ -259,6 +259,15 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(const char *where, unsigned int line, if (WARN_ON_ONCE(err)) { ext4_journal_abort_handle(where, line, __func__, bh, handle, err); + ext4_error_inode(inode, where, line, + bh->b_blocknr, + "journal_dirty_metadata failed: " + "handle type %u started at line %u, " + "credits %u/%u, errcode %d", + handle->h_type, + handle->h_line_no, + handle->h_requested_credits, + handle->h_buffer_credits, err); } } else { if (inode) -- 2.20.1