Resolves RH Bug 465679- e2fsck -p crashes with read-only DM device (e.g. logical volume) If a block device is unwritable, e2fsck -p gets into an infinite loop trying to preenhalt, close & flush the fs, which tries to flush the cache, which gets a write error and calls preenhalt which tries to close & flush the fs ... ad infinitum. Per Ted's suggestion just flag the ctx as "exiting" and short-circuit the infinite loop. Tested by running e2fsck -p on a block device set read-only by BLKROSET. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: e2fsprogs/e2fsck/e2fsck.h =================================================================== --- e2fsprogs.orig/e2fsck/e2fsck.h +++ e2fsprogs/e2fsck/e2fsck.h @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ struct resource_track { #define E2F_FLAG_RESTARTED 0x0200 /* E2fsck has been restarted */ #define E2F_FLAG_RESIZE_INODE 0x0400 /* Request to recreate resize inode */ #define E2F_FLAG_GOT_DEVSIZE 0x0800 /* Device size has been fetched */ +#define E2F_FLAG_EXITING 0x1000 /* E2fsck exiting due to errors */ /* * Defines for indicating the e2fsck pass number Index: e2fsprogs/e2fsck/ehandler.c =================================================================== --- e2fsprogs.orig/e2fsck/ehandler.c +++ e2fsprogs/e2fsck/ehandler.c @@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ static errcode_t e2fsck_handle_read_erro e2fsck_t ctx; ctx = (e2fsck_t) fs->priv_data; - + if (ctx->flags & E2F_FLAG_EXITING) + return 0; /* * If more than one block was read, try reading each block * separately. We could use the actual bytes read to figure @@ -79,6 +80,8 @@ static errcode_t e2fsck_handle_write_err e2fsck_t ctx; ctx = (e2fsck_t) fs->priv_data; + if (ctx->flags & E2F_FLAG_EXITING) + return 0; /* * If more than one block was written, try writing each block Index: e2fsprogs/e2fsck/util.c =================================================================== --- e2fsprogs.orig/e2fsck/util.c +++ e2fsprogs/e2fsck/util.c @@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ void preenhalt(e2fsck_t ctx) fprintf(stderr, _("\n\n%s: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; " "RUN fsck MANUALLY.\n\t(i.e., without -a or -p options)\n"), ctx->device_name); + ctx->flags |= E2F_FLAG_EXITING; if (fs != NULL) { fs->super->s_state |= EXT2_ERROR_FS; ext2fs_mark_super_dirty(fs); -- 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