Currently we clear BH_New bit in case of error and also in the standard ext4_write_end() handler (in block_commit_write()). However ext4_journalled_write_end() misses this clearing and thus we are leaving stale BH_New bits behind. Generally ext4_block_write_begin() clears these bits before any harm can be done but in case blocksize < pagesize and we hit some error when processing a page with these stale bits, we'll try to zero buffers with these stale BH_New bits and jbd2 will complain (as buffers were not prepared for writing in this transaction). Fix the problem by clearing BH_New bits in ext4_journalled_write_end() and WARN if ext4_block_write_begin() sees stale BH_New bits. Reported-and-tested-by: Baolin Liu <liubaolin12138@xxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: Zhi Long <longzhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 3910b513fcdf ("ext4: persist the new uptodate buffers in ext4_journalled_zero_new_buffers") Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) - changes since v1: Updated tags diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 54bdd4884fe6..aa56af4a92ad 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ int ext4_block_write_begin(handle_t *handle, struct folio *folio, } continue; } - if (buffer_new(bh)) + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(buffer_new(bh))) clear_buffer_new(bh); if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) { WARN_ON(bh->b_size != blocksize); @@ -1265,6 +1265,7 @@ static int write_end_fn(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, ret = ext4_dirty_journalled_data(handle, bh); clear_buffer_meta(bh); clear_buffer_prio(bh); + clear_buffer_new(bh); return ret; } -- 2.35.3