If the journal has aborted due to a checkpointing failure, we have to keep the contents of the journal space. ext3_put_super() detects the journal abort, then it invokes ext3_abort() to make the filesystem read only and keep needs_recovery flag. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/ioctl.c | 12 ++++++++---- fs/ext3/super.c | 11 +++++++++-- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1/fs/ext3/ioctl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1.orig/fs/ext3/ioctl.c +++ linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1/fs/ext3/ioctl.c @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ setrsvsz_out: case EXT3_IOC_GROUP_EXTEND: { ext3_fsblk_t n_blocks_count; struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; - int err; + int err, err2; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) return -EPERM; @@ -254,8 +254,10 @@ setrsvsz_out: } err = ext3_group_extend(sb, EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es, n_blocks_count); journal_lock_updates(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal); - journal_flush(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal); + err2 = journal_flush(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal); journal_unlock_updates(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal); + if (err == 0) + err = err2; group_extend_out: mnt_drop_write(filp->f_path.mnt); return err; @@ -263,7 +265,7 @@ group_extend_out: case EXT3_IOC_GROUP_ADD: { struct ext3_new_group_data input; struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; - int err; + int err, err2; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) return -EPERM; @@ -280,8 +282,10 @@ group_extend_out: err = ext3_group_add(sb, &input); journal_lock_updates(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal); - journal_flush(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal); + err2 = journal_flush(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal); journal_unlock_updates(EXT3_SB(sb)->s_journal); + if (err == 0) + err = err2; group_add_out: mnt_drop_write(filp->f_path.mnt); return err; Index: linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1/fs/ext3/super.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1.orig/fs/ext3/super.c +++ linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ static void ext3_put_super (struct super int i; ext3_xattr_put_super(sb); - journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal); + if (journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal) < 0) + ext3_abort(sb, __func__, "Couldn't clean up the journal"); if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) { EXT3_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER); es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state); @@ -2388,7 +2389,13 @@ static void ext3_write_super_lockfs(stru /* Now we set up the journal barrier. */ journal_lock_updates(journal); - journal_flush(journal); + + /* + * We don't want to clear needs_recovery flag when we failed + * to flush the journal. + */ + if (journal_flush(journal) < 0) + return; /* Journal blocked and flushed, clear needs_recovery flag. */ EXT3_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html