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* [PATCH] ext4: Avoid panic during forced reboot
@ 2019-03-12  9:49 Jan Kara
  2019-03-12 12:21 ` Petr Mladek
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jan Kara @ 2019-03-12  9:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ted Tso; +Cc: linux-ext4, Petr Mladek, Jan Kara

When admin calls "reboot -f" - i.e., does a hard system reboot by
directly calling reboot(2) - ext4 filesystem mounted with errors=panic
can panic the system. This happens because the underlying device gets
disabled without unmounting the filesystem and thus some syscall running
in parallel to reboot(2) can result in the filesystem getting IO errors.

This is somewhat surprising to the users so try improve the behavior by
switching to errors=remount-ro behavior when the system is running
reboot(2).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

What do people think about this? Arguably this change has some potential
for breakage if e.g. an ext4 error would somehow block reboot(2). I don't
see how that would be possible but I wanted to raise this just in case...

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 60da0a6e4d86..f7b6f95fa8dd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -430,6 +430,12 @@ static void ext4_journal_commit_callback(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *txn)
 	spin_unlock(&sbi->s_md_lock);
 }
 
+static bool system_going_down(void)
+{
+	return system_state == SYSTEM_HALT || system_state == SYSTEM_POWER_OFF
+		|| system_state == SYSTEM_RESTART;
+}
+
 /* Deal with the reporting of failure conditions on a filesystem such as
  * inconsistencies detected or read IO failures.
  *
@@ -460,7 +466,12 @@ static void ext4_handle_error(struct super_block *sb)
 		if (journal)
 			jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EIO);
 	}
-	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_RO)) {
+	/*
+	 * We force ERRORS_RO behavior when system is rebooting. Otherwise we
+	 * could panic during 'reboot -f' as the underlying device got already
+	 * disabled.
+	 */
+	if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_RO) || system_going_down()) {
 		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_CRIT, "Remounting filesystem read-only");
 		/*
 		 * Make sure updated value of ->s_mount_flags will be visible
-- 
2.16.4


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2019-03-12  9:49 [PATCH] ext4: Avoid panic during forced reboot Jan Kara
2019-03-12 12:21 ` Petr Mladek
2019-03-12 16:01   ` Jan Kara
2019-03-13 10:25     ` Petr Mladek
2019-03-13 14:40       ` Jan Kara
2019-03-15  3:47     ` Theodore Ts'o

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