From: Milos Nikic <nikic.milos@gmail.com>
To: jack@suse.cz
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Milos Nikic <nikic.milos@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] jbd2: gracefully abort on checkpointing state corruptions
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 16:08:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260309230838.422074-1-nikic.milos@gmail.com> (raw)
This patch targets two internal state machine invariants in checkpoint.c
residing inside functions that natively return integer error codes.
- In jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(): A blocknr of 0 indicates a severely
corrupted journal superblock. Replaced the J_ASSERT with a WARN_ON_ONCE
and a graceful journal abort, returning -EUCLEAN.
- In jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(): Replaced the J_ASSERT_BH checking for
an unexpected buffer_jwrite state. If the warning triggers, we
explicitly drop the just-taken get_bh() reference and call __flush_batch()
to safely clean up any previously queued buffers in the j_chkpt_bhs array,
preventing a memory leak before returning -EUCLEAN.
Signed-off-by: Milos Nikic <nikic.milos@gmail.com>
---
fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
index de89c5bef607..cdfbfd27afae 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
@@ -267,7 +267,17 @@ int jbd2_log_do_checkpoint(journal_t *journal)
*/
BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "queue");
get_bh(bh);
- J_ASSERT_BH(bh, !buffer_jwrite(bh));
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(buffer_jwrite(bh))) {
+ put_bh(bh); /* drop the ref we just took */
+ spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
+ jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EUCLEAN);
+
+ /* Clean up any previously batched buffers */
+ if (batch_count)
+ __flush_batch(journal, &batch_count);
+
+ return -EUCLEAN;
+ }
journal->j_chkpt_bhs[batch_count++] = bh;
transaction->t_chp_stats.cs_written++;
transaction->t_checkpoint_list = jh->b_cpnext;
@@ -325,7 +335,10 @@ int jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(journal_t *journal)
if (!jbd2_journal_get_log_tail(journal, &first_tid, &blocknr))
return 1;
- J_ASSERT(blocknr != 0);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(blocknr == 0)) {
+ jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EUCLEAN);
+ return -EUCLEAN;
+ }
/*
* We need to make sure that any blocks that were recently written out
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-09 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-09 23:08 Milos Nikic [this message]
2026-03-10 4:58 ` [PATCH] jbd2: gracefully abort on checkpointing state corruptions Andreas Dilger
2026-03-11 1:22 ` Zhang Yi
2026-03-11 3:18 ` Baokun Li
2026-03-16 17:34 ` Jan Kara
2026-03-16 22:17 ` Milos Nikic
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