If we encounter a filesystem error during orphan cleanup, we should stop. Otherwise, we may end up in an infinite loop where the same inode is processed again and again. EXT4-fs (loop0): warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:758: group 2, block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 6117 vs 0 free clusters Aborting journal on device loop0-8. EXT4-fs (loop0): Remounting filesystem read-only EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_free_blocks:4895: Journal has aborted EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_do_update_inode:4893: Journal has aborted EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_do_update_inode:4893: Journal has aborted EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_ext_remove_space:3068: IO failure EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_ext_truncate:4667: Journal has aborted EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_orphan_del:2927: Journal has aborted EXT4-fs error (device loop0) in ext4_do_update_inode:4893: Journal has aborted EXT4-fs (loop0): Inode 16 (00000000618192a0): orphan list check failed! [...] EXT4-fs (loop0): Inode 16 (0000000061819748): orphan list check failed! [...] EXT4-fs (loop0): Inode 16 (0000000061819bf0): orphan list check failed! [...] See-also: c9eb13a9105 ("ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list") Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 05ec0a7..b92802d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -2284,6 +2284,16 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb, while (es->s_last_orphan) { struct inode *inode; + /* + * We may have encountered an error during cleanup; if + * so, skip the rest. + */ + if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_state & EXT4_ERROR_FS) { + jbd_debug(1, "Skipping orphan recovery on fs with errors.\n"); + es->s_last_orphan = 0; + break; + } + inode = ext4_orphan_get(sb, le32_to_cpu(es->s_last_orphan)); if (IS_ERR(inode)) { es->s_last_orphan = 0; -- 1.9.1 -- 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