Re: [PATCH] ext4, jbd2: ensure entering into panic after recording an error in JBD2 superblock

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On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 05:44:49AM +0000, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> If a EXT4 filesystem utilizes JBD2 journaling and an error occurs, the journaling
> will be aborted first and the error number will be recorded into JBD2 superblock
> and, finally, the system will enter into the panic state in "errors=panic" option.
> But, in the rare case, this sequence is little twisted like the below figure and
> it will happen that the system enters into panic state, which means the system
> reset in mobile environment, before completion of recording an error in the
> journal superblock. In this case, e2fsck cannot recognize that the filesystem
> failure occured in the previous run and the corruption wouldn't be fixed.

Applied, but please note that the patch was very badly whitespace
damaged, *despite* being base64 encoded.  I had to manually apply the
patch.  I also adjusted the commit description so that its width was
no more 80 columns (ideally the width should be no more than 72
columns wide).

Thanks,

						- Ted
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