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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Cc: adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] ext4:fix warning in mark_buffer_dirty as IO error when mount with errors=continue
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 10:59:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YN3YURikQ5SdEFLs@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210615090537.3423231-1-yebin10@huawei.com>

Thanks, applied.  I reworded the commit description a bit, putting the
explanation first, and cleaning up the text a bit to make it more
readable:

commit 558d6450c7755aa005d89021204b6cdcae5e848f
Author: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 15 17:05:37 2021 +0800

    ext4: fix WARN_ON_ONCE(!buffer_uptodate) after an error writing the superblock
    
    If a writeback of the superblock fails with an I/O error, the buffer
    is marked not uptodate.  However, this can cause a WARN_ON to trigger
    when we attempt to write superblock a second time.  (Which might
    succeed this time, for cerrtain types of block devices such as iSCSI
    devices over a flaky network.)
    
    Try to detect this case in flush_stashed_error_work(), and also change
    __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() so we always set the uptodate flag, not
    just in the nojournal case.
    
    Before this commit, this problem can be repliciated via:
    
    1. dmsetup  create dust1 --table  '0 2097152 dust /dev/sdc 0 4096'
    2. mount  /dev/mapper/dust1  /home/test
    3. dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 0 10
    4. cd /home/test
    5. echo "XXXXXXX" > t
    
    After a few seconds, we got following warning:

    ... <rest of commit description was unchanged, and omitted here>

      reply	other threads:[~2021-07-01 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-15  9:05 [PATCH RFC v2] ext4:fix warning in mark_buffer_dirty as IO error when mount with errors=continue Ye Bin
2021-07-01 14:59 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]

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