linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: short-cut orphan cleanup on error

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2016 23:49:04 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: short-cut orphan cleanup on error

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:50:04AM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> If we encounter a filesystem error during orphan cleanup, we should stop.
> Otherwise, we may end up in an infinite loop where the same inode is
> processed again and again.
> 
>     EXT4-fs (loop0): warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
>     EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:758: group 2, block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 6117 vs 0 free clusters
>     Aborting journal on device loop0-8.
>     EXT4-fs (loop0): Remounting filesystem read-only
>     EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_free_blocks:4895: Journal has aborted
>     EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_do_update_inode:4893: Journal has aborted
>     EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_do_update_inode:4893: Journal has aborted
>     EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_ext_remove_space:3068: IO failure
>     EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_ext_truncate:4667: Journal has aborted
>     EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_orphan_del:2927: Journal has aborted
>     EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_do_update_inode:4893: Journal has aborted
>     EXT4-fs (loop0): Inode 16 (00000000618192a0): orphan list check failed!
>     [...]
>     EXT4-fs (loop0): Inode 16 (0000000061819748): orphan list check failed!
>     [...]
>     EXT4-fs (loop0): Inode 16 (0000000061819bf0): orphan list check failed!
>     [...]
> 
> See-also: c9eb13a9105 ("ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list")
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>

Applied, thanks.

							- Ted
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