[ 030/122] jbd2: dont write superblock when if its empty

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Oct 10 2012 - 19:13:45 EST


3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit eeecef0af5ea4efd763c9554cf2bd80fc4a0efd3 upstream.

This sequence:

# truncate --size=1g fsfile
# mkfs.ext4 -F fsfile
# mount -o loop,ro fsfile /mnt
# umount /mnt
# dmesg | tail

results in an IO error when unmounting the RO filesystem:

[ 318.020828] Buffer I/O error on device loop1, logical block 196608
[ 318.027024] lost page write due to I/O error on loop1
[ 318.032088] JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for loop1-8.

This was a regression introduced by commit 24bcc89c7e7c: "jbd2: split
updating of journal superblock and marking journal empty".

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/jbd2/journal.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -1354,6 +1354,11 @@ static void jbd2_mark_journal_empty(jour

BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&journal->j_checkpoint_mutex));
read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ /* Is it already empty? */
+ if (sb->s_start == 0) {
+ read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
+ return;
+ }
jbd_debug(1, "JBD2: Marking journal as empty (seq %d)\n",
journal->j_tail_sequence);



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