Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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. Oh, thanks to Vlado Potisk for reporting this. -Eric -- 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
