The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: do not BUG if buffer not uptodate in __ocfs2_journal_access has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-buffer-not-uptodate-in-__ocfs2_journal_access.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: do not BUG if buffer not uptodate in __ocfs2_journal_access When storage network is unstable, it may trigger the BUG in __ocfs2_journal_access because of buffer not uptodate. We can retry the write in this case or return error instead of BUG. Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Zhangguanghui <zhang.guanghui@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Zhangguanghui <zhang.guanghui@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/journal.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/journal.c~ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-buffer-not-uptodate-in-__ocfs2_journal_access fs/ocfs2/journal.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c~ocfs2-do-not-bug-if-buffer-not-uptodate-in-__ocfs2_journal_access +++ a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c @@ -668,7 +668,23 @@ static int __ocfs2_journal_access(handle mlog(ML_ERROR, "giving me a buffer that's not uptodate!\n"); mlog(ML_ERROR, "b_blocknr=%llu\n", (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr); - BUG(); + + lock_buffer(bh); + /* + * A previous attempt to write this buffer head failed. + * Nothing we can do but to retry the write and hope for + * the best. + */ + if (buffer_write_io_error(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) { + clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh); + set_buffer_uptodate(bh); + } + + if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { + unlock_buffer(bh); + return -EIO; + } + unlock_buffer(bh); } /* Set the current transaction information on the ci so _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx are -- 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