linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: don't try to clear the orphan

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Message-ID: <20250807162220.882655-1-tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Thu,  7 Aug 2025 12:22:20 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: don't try to clear the orphan_present feature block device is r/o

When the file system is frozen in preparation for taking an LVM
snapshot, the journal is checkpointed and if the orphan_file feature
is enabled, and the orphan file is empty, we clear the orphan_present
feature flag.  But if there are pending inodes that need to be removed
the orphan_present feature flag can't be cleared.

The problem comes if the block device is read-only.  In that case, we
can't process the orphan inode list, so it is skipped in
ext4_orphan_cleanup().  But then in ext4_mark_recovery_complete(),
this results in the ext4 error "Orphan file not empty on read-only fs"
firing and the file system mount is aborted.

Fix this by clearing the needs_recovery flag in the block device is
read-only.  We do this after the call to ext4_load_and_init-journal()
since there are some error checks need to be done in case the journal
needs to be replayed and the block device is read-only, or if the
block device containing the externa journal is read-only, etc.

Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1108271
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 02f310fcf47f ("ext4: Speedup ext4 orphan inode handling")
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index c7d39da7e733..52a5f2b391fb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5414,6 +5414,8 @@ static int __ext4_fill_super(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb)
 		err = ext4_load_and_init_journal(sb, es, ctx);
 		if (err)
 			goto failed_mount3a;
+		if (bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev))
+		    needs_recovery = 0;
 	} else if (test_opt(sb, NOLOAD) && !sb_rdonly(sb) &&
 		   ext4_has_feature_journal_needs_recovery(sb)) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "required journal recovery "
-- 
2.47.2