We test with following step: 1. dmsetup create dust1 --table '0 2097152 dust /dev/sdc 0 4096' 2. mount /dev/mapper/dust1 /home/test 3. dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 0 10 4. cd /home/test 5. echo "XXXXXXX" > t 6. wait a moment we got following warning: [ 80.654487] end_buffer_async_write: bh=0xffff88842f18bdd0 [ 80.656134] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 0, lost async page write [ 85.774450] EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_check_bdev_write_error:193: comm kworker/u16:8: Error while async write back metadata [ 91.415513] mark_buffer_dirty: bh=0xffff88842f18bdd0 [ 91.417038] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 91.418450] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1944 at fs/buffer.c:1092 mark_buffer_dirty.cold+0x1c/0x5e [ 91.440322] Call Trace: [ 91.440652] __jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer+0x135/0x220 [ 91.441354] __jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer+0x24/0x90 [ 91.441981] __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer+0x134/0x1d0 [ 91.442628] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x249a/0x3240 [ 91.443336] ? put_prev_entity+0x2a/0x200 [ 91.443856] ? kjournald2+0x12e/0x510 [ 91.444324] kjournald2+0x12e/0x510 [ 91.444773] ? woken_wake_function+0x30/0x30 [ 91.445326] kthread+0x150/0x1b0 [ 91.445739] ? commit_timeout+0x20/0x20 [ 91.446258] ? kthread_flush_worker+0xb0/0xb0 [ 91.446818] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [ 91.447293] ---[ end trace 66f0b6bf3d1abade ]--- If super block write back with IO error, then will call clear_buffer_uptodate clear uptodate flag. But there is no chance to set buffer uptodate again. So call set_buffer_uptodate before call jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata to make sure that buffer is uptodate when buffer is jbddirty. Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c | 2 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c index be799040a415..b96ecba91899 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c @@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(const char *where, unsigned int line, set_buffer_meta(bh); set_buffer_prio(bh); + set_buffer_uptodate(bh); if (ext4_handle_valid(handle)) { err = jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh); /* Errors can only happen due to aborted journal or a nasty bug */ @@ -355,7 +356,6 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(const char *where, unsigned int line, err); } } else { - set_buffer_uptodate(bh); if (inode) mark_buffer_dirty_inode(bh, inode); else diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index d29f6aa7d96e..1bd50d3d6a47 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -5584,6 +5584,7 @@ static void ext4_update_super(struct super_block *sb) spin_unlock(&sbi->s_error_lock); ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb); + set_buffer_uptodate(sbh); unlock_buffer(sbh); } -- 2.31.1