On Wed 23-09-20 21:11:49, Zhang Xiaoxu wrote: > If some errors has occurred on the device, and the orphan list not empty, > then mount the device with 'ro', the bdev write error check will failed: > ext4_check_bdev_write_error:193: comm mount: Error while async write back metadata > > Since the sbi->s_bdev_wb_err wouldn't be initialized when mount file system > with 'ro', when clean up the orphan list and access the iloc buffer, bdev > write error check will failed. > > So we should always initialize the sbi->s_bdev_wb_err even if mount the > file system with 'ro'. > > Fixes: bc71726c7257 ("ext4: abort the filesystem if failed to async write metadata buffer") > Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for the patch! Good catch! I just think you should now remove the errseq_check_and_advance() call in ext4_remount() because it isn't needed anymore. Honza > diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c > index ea425b49b345..086439889869 100644 > --- a/fs/ext4/super.c > +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c > @@ -4814,9 +4814,8 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) > * used to detect the metadata async write error. > */ > spin_lock_init(&sbi->s_bdev_wb_lock); > - if (!sb_rdonly(sb)) > - errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping->wb_err, > - &sbi->s_bdev_wb_err); > + errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping->wb_err, > + &sbi->s_bdev_wb_err); > sb->s_bdev->bd_super = sb; > EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_state |= EXT4_ORPHAN_FS; > ext4_orphan_cleanup(sb, es); > -- > 2.25.4 > -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR