Commit 7543fc7b authored Sep 27, 2006 by Vasily Averin Committed by Linus Torvalds Sep 27, 2006

[PATCH] ext3: wrong error behavior

SWsoft Virtuozzo/OpenVZ Linux kernel team has discovered that ext3 error
behavior was broken in linux kernels since 2.5.x versions by the following
patch:

2002/10/31 02:15:26-05:00 tytso@snap.thunk.org
Default mount options from superblock for ext2/3 filesystems
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/gnupatch@3dc0d88eKbV9ivV4ptRNM8fBuA3JBQ



In case ext3 file system is mounted with errors=continue
(EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE) errors should be ignored when possible.  However at
present in case of any error kernel aborts journal and remounts filesystem
to read-only.  Such behavior was hit number of times and noted to differ
from that of 2.4.x kernels.

This patch fixes this:
- do nothing in case of EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE,
- set EXT3_MOUNT_ABORT and call journal_abort() in all other cases
- panic() should be called after ext3_commit_super() to save
 sb marked as EXT3_ERROR_FS

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 36faadc1

fs/ext3/super.c

+6 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -159,20 +159,21 @@ static void ext3_handle_error(struct super_block *sb)
		if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
		return;

		if (test_opt (sb, ERRORS_RO)) {
		printk (KERN_CRIT "Remounting filesystem read-only\n");
		sb->s_flags \|= MS_RDONLY;
		} else {
		if (!test_opt (sb, ERRORS_CONT)) {
		journal_t *journal = EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal;

		EXT3_SB(sb)->s_mount_opt \|= EXT3_MOUNT_ABORT;
		if (journal)
		journal_abort(journal, -EIO);
		}
		if (test_opt (sb, ERRORS_RO)) {
		printk (KERN_CRIT "Remounting filesystem read-only\n");
		sb->s_flags \|= MS_RDONLY;
		}
		ext3_commit_super(sb, es, 1);
		if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC))
		panic("EXT3-fs (device %s): panic forced after error\n",
		sb->s_id);
		ext3_commit_super(sb, es, 1);
		}

		void ext3_error (struct super_block * sb, const char * function,

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