linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Fix bdev write error check failed when mount fs with ro

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Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:11:49 -0400
From:   Zhang Xiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@...wei.com>
To:     <yi.zhang@...wei.com>, <tytso@....edu>, <jack@...e.cz>,
        <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix bdev write error check failed when mount fs with ro

If some errors has occurred on the device, and the orphan list not empty,
then mount the device with 'ro', the bdev write error check will failed:
  ext4_check_bdev_write_error:193: comm mount: Error while async write back metadata

Since the sbi->s_bdev_wb_err wouldn't be initialized when mount file system
with 'ro', when clean up the orphan list and access the iloc buffer, bdev
write error check will failed.

So we should always initialize the sbi->s_bdev_wb_err even if mount the
file system with 'ro'.

Fixes: bc71726c7257 ("ext4: abort the filesystem if failed to async write metadata buffer")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@...wei.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index ea425b49b345..086439889869 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4814,9 +4814,8 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	 * used to detect the metadata async write error.
 	 */
 	spin_lock_init(&sbi->s_bdev_wb_lock);
-	if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
-		errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping->wb_err,
-					 &sbi->s_bdev_wb_err);
+	errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping->wb_err,
+				 &sbi->s_bdev_wb_err);
 	sb->s_bdev->bd_super = sb;
 	EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_state |= EXT4_ORPHAN_FS;
 	ext4_orphan_cleanup(sb, es);
-- 
2.25.4