Re: Regression in longterm 4.19: f2fs: use generic EFSBADCRC/EFSCORRUPTED

[Jaegeuk Kim]

Thank you so much for taking care of this.

Hi Greg,

Could you please cherry-pick the below commit in -stable?

38fb6d0ea34299d97b031ed64fe994158b6f8eb3
   f2fs: use EINVAL for superblock with invalid magic

Thanks,

On 10/13, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2019-10-12 21:55:24, Andrew Macks wrote:
> > Sorry for version typo in the previous message.
> > 
> > In addition to 4.19, the issue was also backported to 4.14 and 5.2.
> > 
> > 4.14, 4.19 and 5.2 are all missing the EINVAL fix from 5.3.
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> Well, when I seen the patch, I thought "looks like the bug is not
> serious enough for -stable". I guess I should have spoken up.
> 
> Anyway, I guess we need to either revert  59a5cea41dd0a or backport
> 38fb6d0ea34299d97b too....
> 
> So I guess Greg and lists need to be cc-ed... and 
> 
> Thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble....
> 
> 								Pavel
> 
> 
> > Andrew.
> > 
> > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 21:39, Andrew Macks <andypoo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi - there is a nasty regression which was recently introduced into
> > > longterm 4.19.76.
> > >
> > > 59a5cea41dd0ae706ab83f8ecd64199aadefb493 was committed to 4.19, however it
> > > introduces a regression that filesystems no longer mount if do_mounts
> > > iterates through them after F2FS.  This surfaced on one of my servers as
> > > F2FS superblock check happens before btrfs mount is attempted.
> > >
> > > With this code, my server panicked after kernel upgrade as btrfs mount
> > > wasn't attempted.
> > >
> > > This issue has already been fixed in 5.3 with this patch in July, but it
> > > was missed from the 4.19 backport.
> > >
> > > 38fb6d0ea34299d97b031ed64fe994158b6f8eb3
> > > f2fs: use EINVAL for superblock with invalid magic
> > >
> > > Andypoo.
> > >
> 
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