Patch "ext4: don't manipulate recovery flag when freezing no-journal fs" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ext4: don't manipulate recovery flag when freezing no-journal fs

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ext4-don-t-manipulate-recovery-flag-when-freezing-no-journal-fs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From c642dc9e1aaed953597e7092d7df329e6234096e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:45:06 -0400
Subject: ext4: don't manipulate recovery flag when freezing no-journal fs

From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

commit c642dc9e1aaed953597e7092d7df329e6234096e upstream.

At some point along this sequence of changes:

f6e63f9 ext4: fold ext4_nojournal_sops into ext4_sops
bb04457 ext4: support freezing ext2 (nojournal) file systems
9ca9238 ext4: Use separate super_operations structure for no_journal filesystems

ext4 started setting needs_recovery on filesystems without journals
when they are unfrozen.  This makes no sense, and in fact confuses
blkid to the point where it doesn't recognize the filesystem at all.

(freeze ext2; unfreeze ext2; run blkid; see no output; run dumpe2fs,
see needs_recovery set on fs w/ no journal).

To fix this, don't manipulate the INCOMPAT_RECOVER feature on
filesystems without journals.

Reported-by: Stu Mark <smark@datto.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/super.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4833,10 +4833,11 @@ static int ext4_freeze(struct super_bloc
 		error = jbd2_journal_flush(journal);
 		if (error < 0)
 			goto out;
+
+		/* Journal blocked and flushed, clear needs_recovery flag. */
+		EXT4_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
 	}
 
-	/* Journal blocked and flushed, clear needs_recovery flag. */
-	EXT4_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
 	error = ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
 out:
 	if (journal)
@@ -4854,8 +4855,11 @@ static int ext4_unfreeze(struct super_bl
 	if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
 		return 0;
 
-	/* Reset the needs_recovery flag before the fs is unlocked. */
-	EXT4_SET_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
+	if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal) {
+		/* Reset the needs_recovery flag before the fs is unlocked. */
+		EXT4_SET_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
+	}
+
 	ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
 	return 0;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sandeen@redhat.com are

queue-4.2/ext4-don-t-manipulate-recovery-flag-when-freezing-no-journal-fs.patch