Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] ext4: make sure fs error flag setted before clear journal error

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Feb 16 2023 - 12:20:57 EST


On Tue 14-02-23 10:29:05, Ye Bin wrote:
> From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Now, jounral error number maybe cleared even though ext4_commit_super()
> failed. This may lead to error flag miss, then fsck will miss to check
> file system deeply.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> fs/ext4/super.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index b94754ba8556..619ef6d021d4 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -6163,11 +6163,13 @@ static int ext4_clear_journal_err(struct super_block *sb,
> errstr = ext4_decode_error(sb, j_errno, nbuf);
> ext4_warning(sb, "Filesystem error recorded "
> "from previous mount: %s", errstr);
> - ext4_warning(sb, "Marking fs in need of filesystem check.");
>
> EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_state |= EXT4_ERROR_FS;
> es->s_state |= cpu_to_le16(EXT4_ERROR_FS);
> - ext4_commit_super(sb);
> + j_errno = ext4_commit_super(sb);
> + if (j_errno)
> + return j_errno;
> + ext4_warning(sb, "Marked fs in need of filesystem check.");
>
> jbd2_journal_clear_err(journal);
> jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno(journal);
> --
> 2.31.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR