[PATCH 6.19 437/844] btrfs: do not ASSERT() when the fs flips RO inside btrfs_repair_io_failure()

From: Sasha Levin

Date: Sat Feb 28 2026 - 14:13:14 EST


From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 8ceaad6cd6e7fa5f73b0b2796a2e85d75d37e9f3 ]

[BUG]
There is a bug report that when btrfs hits ENOSPC error in a critical
path, btrfs flips RO (this part is expected, although the ENOSPC bug
still needs to be addressed).

The problem is after the RO flip, if there is a read repair pending, we
can hit the ASSERT() inside btrfs_repair_io_failure() like the following:

BTRFS info (device vdc): relocating block group 30408704 flags metadata|raid1
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BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -28)
WARNING: fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:3235 at __btrfs_free_extent.isra.0+0x453/0xfd0, CPU#1: btrfs/383844
Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
[...]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
BTRFS info (device vdc state EA): 2 enospc errors during balance
BTRFS info (device vdc state EA): balance: ended with status: -30
BTRFS error (device vdc state EA): parent transid verify failed on logical 30556160 mirror 2 wanted 8 found 6
BTRFS error (device vdc state EA): bdev /dev/nvme0n1 errs: wr 0, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 10, gen 0
[...]
assertion failed: !(fs_info->sb->s_flags & SB_RDONLY) :: 0, in fs/btrfs/bio.c:938
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assertion failed: !(fs_info->sb->s_flags & SB_RDONLY) :: 0, in fs/btrfs/bio.c:938
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/bio.c:938!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 868 Comm: kworker/u8:13 Tainted: G W N 6.19.0-rc6+ #4788 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [W]=WARN, [N]=TEST
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: btrfs-endio simple_end_io_work
RIP: 0010:btrfs_repair_io_failure.cold+0xb2/0x120
RSP: 0000:ffffc90001d2bcf0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000051 RBX: 0000000000001000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8305cf42 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 00000000fffeffff R09: ffffffff837fa988
R10: ffffffff8327a9e0 R11: 6f69747265737361 R12: ffff88813018d310
R13: ffff888168b8a000 R14: ffffc90001d2bd90 R15: ffff88810a169000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8885e752c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
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[CAUSE]
The cause of -ENOSPC error during the test case btrfs/124 is still
unknown, although it's known that we still have cases where metadata can
be over-committed but can not be fulfilled correctly, thus if we hit
such ENOSPC error inside a critical path, we have no choice but abort
the current transaction.

This will mark the fs read-only.

The problem is inside the btrfs_repair_io_failure() path that we require
the fs not to be mount read-only. This is normally fine, but if we are
doing a read-repair meanwhile the fs flips RO due to a critical error,
we can enter btrfs_repair_io_failure() with super block set to
read-only, thus triggering the above crash.

[FIX]
Just replace the ASSERT() with a proper return if the fs is already
read-only.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20260126045555.GB31641@xxxxxx/
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/bio.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/bio.c b/fs/btrfs/bio.c
index e4d382d3a7aea..1de1b408c6a6d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/bio.c
@@ -934,7 +934,6 @@ int btrfs_repair_io_failure(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 ino, u64 fileoff,
struct bio *bio = NULL;
int ret = 0;

- ASSERT(!(fs_info->sb->s_flags & SB_RDONLY));
BUG_ON(!mirror_num);

/* Basic alignment checks. */
@@ -946,6 +945,13 @@ int btrfs_repair_io_failure(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 ino, u64 fileoff,
ASSERT(step <= length);
ASSERT(is_power_of_2(step));

+ /*
+ * The fs either mounted RO or hit critical errors, no need
+ * to continue repairing.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(sb_rdonly(fs_info->sb)))
+ return 0;
+
if (btrfs_repair_one_zone(fs_info, logical))
return 0;

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2.51.0