This fixes some very common warnings reported by kerneloops.org Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/jbd/journal.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c index f38a5af..b3f8eb8 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/super.c +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c @@ -2259,13 +2259,34 @@ static void ext3_commit_super (struct super_block * sb, if (!sbh) return; + if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) { + /* + * Oh, dear. A previous attempt to write the + * superblock failed. This could happen because the + * USB device was yanked out. Or it could happen to + * be a transient write error and maybe the block will + * be remapped. Nothing we can do but to retry the + * write and hope for the best. + */ + printk(KERN_ERR "ext3: previous I/O error to " + "superblock detected for %s.\n", sb->s_id); + clear_buffer_write_io_error(sbh); + set_buffer_uptodate(sbh); + } es->s_wtime = cpu_to_le32(get_seconds()); es->s_free_blocks_count = cpu_to_le32(ext3_count_free_blocks(sb)); es->s_free_inodes_count = cpu_to_le32(ext3_count_free_inodes(sb)); BUFFER_TRACE(sbh, "marking dirty"); mark_buffer_dirty(sbh); - if (sync) + if (sync) { sync_dirty_buffer(sbh); + if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "ext3: I/O error while writing " + "superblock for %s.\n", sb->s_id); + clear_buffer_write_io_error(sbh); + set_buffer_uptodate(sbh); + } + } } diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c index aa7143a..8214175 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(journal_force_commit); static int journal_convert_superblock_v1(journal_t *, journal_superblock_t *); static void __journal_abort_soft (journal_t *journal, int errno); +static const char *journal_dev_name(journal_t *journal, char *buffer); /* * Helper function used to manage commit timeouts @@ -931,6 +932,7 @@ void journal_update_superblock(journal_t *journal, int wait) { journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock; struct buffer_head *bh = journal->j_sb_buffer; + char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; /* * As a special case, if the on-disk copy is already marked as needing @@ -948,6 +950,22 @@ void journal_update_superblock(journal_t *journal, int wait) goto out; } + if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) { + /* + * Oh, dear. A previous attempt to write the journal + * superblock failed. This could happen because the + * USB device was yanked out. Or it could happen to + * be a transient write error and maybe the block will + * be remapped. Nothing we can do but to retry the + * write and hope for the best. + */ + printk(KERN_ERR "JBD: previous I/O error detected " + "for journal superblock update for %s.\n", + journal_dev_name(journal, b)); + clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh); + set_buffer_uptodate(bh); + } + spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); jbd_debug(1,"JBD: updating superblock (start %ld, seq %d, errno %d)\n", journal->j_tail, journal->j_tail_sequence, journal->j_errno); @@ -959,9 +977,16 @@ void journal_update_superblock(journal_t *journal, int wait) BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "marking dirty"); mark_buffer_dirty(bh); - if (wait) + if (wait) { sync_dirty_buffer(bh); - else + if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "JBD: I/O error detected " + "when updating journal superblock for %s.\n", + journal_dev_name(journal, b)); + clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh); + set_buffer_uptodate(bh); + } + } else ll_rw_block(SWRITE, 1, &bh); out: -- 1.5.6.1.205.ge2c7.dirty -- 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