linux-kernel - [PATCH] ubifs: Check ubifs_wbuf

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Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:12:42 +0100
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ubifs: Check ubifs_wbuf_sync() return code

If ubifs_wbuf_sync() fails we must not write a master node with the
dirty marker cleared.
Otherwise it is possible that in case of an IO error while syncing we
mark the filesystem as clean and UBIFS refuses to recover upon next
mount.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Fixes: 1e51764a3c2a ("UBIFS: add new flash file system")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
---
 fs/ubifs/super.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 0beb285b143d..468bca452d0a 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1739,8 +1739,11 @@ static void ubifs_remount_ro(struct ubifs_info *c)
 
 	dbg_save_space_info(c);
 
-	for (i = 0; i < c->jhead_cnt; i++)
-		ubifs_wbuf_sync(&c->jheads[i].wbuf);
+	for (i = 0; i < c->jhead_cnt; i++) {
+		err = ubifs_wbuf_sync(&c->jheads[i].wbuf);
+		if (err)
+			ubifs_ro_mode(c, err);
+	}
 
 	c->mst_node->flags &= ~cpu_to_le32(UBIFS_MST_DIRTY);
 	c->mst_node->flags |= cpu_to_le32(UBIFS_MST_NO_ORPHS);
@@ -1806,8 +1809,11 @@ static void ubifs_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 			int err;
 
 			/* Synchronize write-buffers */
-			for (i = 0; i < c->jhead_cnt; i++)
-				ubifs_wbuf_sync(&c->jheads[i].wbuf);
+			for (i = 0; i < c->jhead_cnt; i++) {
+				err = ubifs_wbuf_sync(&c->jheads[i].wbuf);
+				if (err)
+					ubifs_ro_mode(c, err);
+			}
 
 			/*
 			 * We are being cleanly unmounted which means the
-- 
2.13.6