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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 05:25:42 +0000 (21:25 -0800)
commit3be553881d55ecd91c9a3470afd535474da73592
treeaba1620ceea24833479845422eb7f76ab7e4d434
parente107e557cfb85d0ea8c95eb198f1953598fb0407
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/super.c
fs/jbd2/journal.c
include/linux/jbd2.h