On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 02:36:04PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote: > 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)) { > /* Hmm... error is zero here, so probably need change "return error" to "return EIO". > @@ -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); > + } > + Instead of replicating all of __sync_dirty_buffer() here, we should just add a check to __sync_dirty_buffer() and have it return EIO if bh->bdev is NULL. (Which I think is a better check than checking buffer_mapped). - Ted -- 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