From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Under some circumstances we may encounter a filesystem error on a
read-only block device, and if we try to save the error info to the
superblock and commit it, we'll wind up with a noisy error and
backtrace, i.e.:
[ 3337.146838] EXT4-fs error (device pmem1p2): ext4_get_journal_inode:4634: comm mount: inode #0: comm mount: iget: illegal inode #
------------[ cut here ]------------
generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device pmem1p2 (partno 2)
WARNING: CPU: 107 PID: 115347 at block/blk-core.c:788 generic_make_request_checks+0x6b4/0x7d0
...
To avoid this, commit the error info in the superblock only if the
block device is writable.
Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
(compile-tested only FWIW)
(also, not sure if the bdev test in __save_error_info should be removed?)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 0c7c4adb664e..55392903bda5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ static void save_error_info(struct super_block *sb, const char *func,
unsigned int line)
{
__save_error_info(sb, func, line);
- ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
+ if (!bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev))
+ ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
}
/*
