From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 0a944e8a6c66ca04c7afbaa17e22bf208a8b37f0 upstream. Since the journal inode is already checked when we added it to the block validity's system zone, if we check it again, we'll just trigger a failure. This was causing failures like this: [ 53.897001] EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_find_extent:909: inode #8: comm jbd2/sda-8: pblk 121667583 bad header/extent: invalid extent entries - magic f30a, entries 8, max 340(340), depth 0(0) [ 53.931430] jbd2_journal_bmap: journal block not found at offset 49 on sda-8 [ 53.938480] Aborting journal on device sda-8. ... but only if the system was under enough memory pressure that logical->physical mapping for the journal inode gets pushed out of the extent cache. (This is why it wasn't noticed earlier.) Fixes: 345c0dbf3a30 ("ext4: protect journal inode's blocks using block_validity") Reported-by: Dan Rue <dan.rue@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ashwin H <ashwinh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index 8d98c9a..71492bf 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -525,10 +525,14 @@ __read_extent_tree_block(const char *function, unsigned int line, } if (buffer_verified(bh) && !(flags & EXT4_EX_FORCE_CACHE)) return bh; - err = __ext4_ext_check(function, line, inode, - ext_block_hdr(bh), depth, pblk); - if (err) - goto errout; + if (!ext4_has_feature_journal(inode->i_sb) || + (inode->i_ino != + le32_to_cpu(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_es->s_journal_inum))) { + err = __ext4_ext_check(function, line, inode, + ext_block_hdr(bh), depth, pblk); + if (err) + goto errout; + } set_buffer_verified(bh); /* * If this is a leaf block, cache all of its entries -- 2.7.4