[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "ext4, jbd2: ensure entering into panic after recording an error in superblock" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ext4, jbd2: ensure entering into panic after recording an error in superblock

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt31.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 5b75f6d8b676fcaba78d2a3b2feca1383653b1d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong at samsung.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:02:56 -0400
Subject: 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 at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c      | 12 ++++++++++--
 fs/jbd2/journal.c    |  6 +++++-
 include/linux/jbd2.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index c261beb..3b31342 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -404,9 +404,13 @@ static void ext4_handle_error(struct super_block *sb)
 		smp_wmb();
 		sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
 	}
-	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC))
+	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC)) {
+		if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal &&
+		  !(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal->j_flags & JBD2_REC_ERR))
+			return;
 		panic("EXT4-fs (device %s): panic forced after error\n",
 			sb->s_id);
+	}
 }

 #define ext4_error_ratelimit(sb)					\
@@ -595,8 +599,12 @@ void __ext4_abort(struct super_block *sb, const char *function,
 			jbd2_journal_abort(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal, -EIO);
 		save_error_info(sb, function, line);
 	}
-	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC))
+	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC)) {
+		if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal &&
+		  !(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal->j_flags & JBD2_REC_ERR))
+			return;
 		panic("EXT4-fs panic from previous error\n");
+	}
 }

 void __ext4_msg(struct super_block *sb,
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 3b607a8..ef5f39a 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -2088,8 +2088,12 @@ static void __journal_abort_soft (journal_t *journal, int errno)

 	__jbd2_journal_abort_hard(journal);

-	if (errno)
+	if (errno) {
 		jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno(journal);
+		write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+		journal->j_flags |= JBD2_REC_ERR;
+		write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+	}
 }

 /**
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
index 385593d..e137e96 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd2.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h
@@ -1007,6 +1007,7 @@ struct journal_s
 #define JBD2_ABORT_ON_SYNCDATA_ERR	0x040	/* Abort the journal on file
 						 * data write error in ordered
 						 * mode */
+#define JBD2_REC_ERR	0x080	/* The errno in the sb has been recorded */

 /*
  * Function declarations for the journaling transaction and buffer
--
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