linux-ext4 - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 07/21] ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev

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Message-Id: <20200415114748.15713-7-sashal@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:47:34 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
        Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 07/21] ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev

From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit c96e2b8564adfb8ac14469ebc51ddc1bfecb3ae2 ]

Under some circumstances we may encounter a filesystem error on a
read-only block device, and if we try to save the error info to the
superblock and commit it, we'll wind up with a noisy error and
backtrace, i.e.:

[ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
------------[ cut here ]------------
generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
...

To avoid this, commit the error info in the superblock only if the
block device is writable.

Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4b6e774d-cc00-3469-7abb-108eb151071a@sandeen.net
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 75f71e52ffc77..508995e7e31d8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -344,7 +344,8 @@ static void save_error_info(struct super_block *sb, const char *func,
 			    unsigned int line)
 {
 	__save_error_info(sb, func, line);
-	ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
+	if (!bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev))
+		ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.20.1