The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: do not BUG if jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata fails has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata-fails.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata-fails.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata-fails.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: do not BUG if jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata fails jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata may fail. Currently it cannot take care of non zero return value and just BUG in ocfs2_journal_dirty. This patch is aborting the handle instead of BUG. Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/journal.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/journal.c~ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata-fails fs/ocfs2/journal.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c~ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata-fails +++ a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c @@ -775,7 +775,15 @@ void ocfs2_journal_dirty(handle_t *handl trace_ocfs2_journal_dirty((unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr); status = jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh); - BUG_ON(status); + if (status) { + mlog_errno(status); + if (!is_handle_aborted(handle)) { + handle->h_err = status; + mlog(ML_ERROR, "jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata failed. " + "Aborting transaction."); + jbd2_journal_abort_handle(handle); + } + } } #define OCFS2_DEFAULT_COMMIT_INTERVAL (HZ * JBD2_DEFAULT_MAX_COMMIT_AGE) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-fix-a-tiny-race-when-truncate-dio-orohaned-entry.patch ocfs2-use-retval-instead-of-status-for-checking-error.patch ocfs2-dlm-cleanup-unused-function-__dlm_wait_on_lockres_flags_set.patch ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata-fails.patch ocfs2-dlm-fix-race-between-purge-and-get-lock-resource.patch ocfs2-set-filesytem-read-only-when-ocfs2_delete_entry-failed.patch ocfs2-set-filesytem-read-only-when-ocfs2_delete_entry-failed-v2.patch ocfs2-avoid-access-invalid-address-when-read-o2dlm-debug-messages.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html