[3.16.y-ckt extended stable] Patch "ext4: grab missed write_count for EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ext4: grab missed write_count for EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov at openvz.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 12:47:23 -0400
Subject: ext4: grab missed write_count for EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT

commit 3e67cfad22230ebed85c56cbe413876f33fea82b upstream.

Otherwise this provokes complain like follows:
WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 5795 at fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:48 ext4_journal_check_start+0x4e/0xa0()
Modules linked in: brd iTCO_wdt lpc_ich mfd_core igb ptp dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
CPU: 12 PID: 5795 Comm: python Not tainted 3.17.0-rc2-00175-gae5344f #158
Hardware name: Intel Corporation W2600CR/W2600CR, BIOS SE5C600.86B.99.99.x028.061320111235 06/13/2011
 0000000000000030 ffff8808116cfd28 ffffffff815c7dfc 0000000000000030
 0000000000000000 ffff8808116cfd68 ffffffff8106ce8c ffff8808116cfdc8
 ffff880813b16000 ffff880806ad6ae8 ffffffff81202008 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff815c7dfc>] dump_stack+0x51/0x6d
 [<ffffffff8106ce8c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
 [<ffffffff81202008>] ? ext4_ioctl+0x9e8/0xeb0
 [<ffffffff8106ceda>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
 [<ffffffff8122867e>] ext4_journal_check_start+0x4e/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81228c10>] __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x90/0x110
 [<ffffffff81202008>] ext4_ioctl+0x9e8/0xeb0
 [<ffffffff8107b0bd>] ? ptrace_stop+0x24d/0x2f0
 [<ffffffff81088530>] ? alloc_pid+0x480/0x480
 [<ffffffff8107b1f2>] ? ptrace_do_notify+0x92/0xb0
 [<ffffffff81186545>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x4e5/0x550
 [<ffffffff815cdbcb>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x40
 [<ffffffff81186603>] SyS_ioctl+0x53/0x80
 [<ffffffff815ce2ce>] tracesys+0xd0/0xd5

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov at openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 0f2252ec274d..3d5de16f028f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -532,9 +532,17 @@ group_add_out:
 	}

 	case EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT:
+	{
+		int err;
 		if (!(filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
 			return -EBADF;
-		return swap_inode_boot_loader(sb, inode);
+		err = mnt_want_write_file(filp);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+		err = swap_inode_boot_loader(sb, inode);
+		mnt_drop_write_file(filp);
+		return err;
+	}

 	case EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS: {
 		ext4_fsblk_t n_blocks_count;
--
2.1.0