Some devices(nbd) can becomes unoperatable via kill_bdev so its pagecache will be invalidated and all buffers becomes unmapped. In that situation we will trigger BUGON on submit_bh. #Testcase mkdir -p a/mnt cd a truncate -s 1G img mkfs.ext4 -F img qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 img mount /dev/nbd0 /mnt cp -r /bin/ /mnt& # Disconnect nbd while cp is active qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0 sync Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 3ed01ec..617d8b4a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -4320,7 +4320,7 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync) struct buffer_head *sbh = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh; int error = 0; - if (!sbh || block_device_ejected(sb)) + if (!sbh || !buffer_mapped(sbh) || block_device_ejected(sb)) return error; if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) { /* @@ -4368,8 +4368,26 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync) ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb); mark_buffer_dirty(sbh); if (sync) { - error = __sync_dirty_buffer(sbh, - test_opt(sb, BARRIER) ? WRITE_FUA : WRITE_SYNC); + lock_buffer(sbh); + /* superblock bh may be invalidated due to drive failure */ + if (!buffer_mapped(sbh)) { + unlock_buffer(sbh); + ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "Can not write superblock " + "because disk cache was invalidated"); + return -EIO; + } + if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(sbh)) { + get_bh(sbh); + sbh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync; + error = submit_bh(test_opt(sb, BARRIER) ? + WRITE_FUA : WRITE_SYNC, sbh); + wait_on_buffer(sbh); + if (!error && !buffer_uptodate(sbh)) + error = -EIO; + } else { + unlock_buffer(sbh); + } + if (error) return error; -- 1.8.3.1 -- 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