ext4, jbd2: ensure entering into panic after recording an error in superblock
authorDaeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:02:56 +0000 (17:02 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:48:21 +0000 (12:48 +0000)
commit08c89a611041ac892e150dbed3e745c1bb255baa
tree7c0869c57a940c2cb085aae8551538dbeaff89ab
parent2a97932f99303b32c6683f136628298da7f85323
ext4, jbd2: ensure entering into panic after recording an error in superblock

commit 4327ba52afd03fc4b5afa0ee1d774c9c5b0e85c5 upstream.

If a EXT4 filesystem utilizes JBD2 journaling and an error occurs, the
journaling will be aborted first and the error number will be recorded
into JBD2 superblock and, finally, the system will enter into the
panic state in "errors=panic" option.  But, in the rare case, this
sequence is little twisted like the below figure and it will happen
that the system enters into panic state, which means the system reset
in mobile environment, before completion of recording an error in the
journal superblock. In this case, e2fsck cannot recognize that the
filesystem failure occurred in the previous run and the corruption
wouldn't be fixed.

Task A                        Task B
ext4_handle_error()
-> jbd2_journal_abort()
  -> __journal_abort_soft()
    -> __jbd2_journal_abort_hard()
    | -> journal->j_flags |= JBD2_ABORT;
    |
    |                         __ext4_abort()
    |                         -> jbd2_journal_abort()
    |                         | -> __journal_abort_soft()
    |                         |   -> if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_ABORT)
    |                         |           return;
    |                         -> panic()
    |
    -> jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno()

Tested-by: Hobin Woo <hobin.woo@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/ext4/super.c
fs/jbd2/journal.c
include/linux/jbd2.h