This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block: Fix fsync always failed if once failed to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: block-fix-fsync-always-failed-if-once-failed.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8a7518931baa8ea023700987f3db31cb0a80610b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:26:59 +0800 Subject: block: Fix fsync always failed if once failed From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8a7518931baa8ea023700987f3db31cb0a80610b upstream. We do test with inject error fault base on v4.19, after test some time we found sync /dev/sda always failed. [root@localhost] sync /dev/sda sync: error syncing '/dev/sda': Input/output error scsi log as follows: [19069.812296] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#64 Send: scmd 0x00000000d03a0b6b [19069.812302] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#64 CDB: Synchronize Cache(10) 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [19069.812533] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#64 Done: SUCCESS Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [19069.812536] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#64 CDB: Synchronize Cache(10) 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [19069.812539] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#64 scsi host busy 1 failed 0 [19069.812542] sd 0:0:0:0: Notifying upper driver of completion (result 0) [19069.812546] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#64 sd_done: completed 0 of 0 bytes [19069.812549] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#64 0 sectors total, 0 bytes done. [19069.812564] print_req_error: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0 ftrace log as follows: rep-306069 [007] .... 19654.923315: block_bio_queue: 8,0 FWS 0 + 0 [rep] rep-306069 [007] .... 19654.923333: block_getrq: 8,0 FWS 0 + 0 [rep] kworker/7:1H-250 [007] .... 19654.923352: block_rq_issue: 8,0 FF 0 () 0 + 0 [kworker/7:1H] <idle>-0 [007] ..s. 19654.923562: block_rq_complete: 8,0 FF () 18446744073709551615 + 0 [0] <idle>-0 [007] d.s. 19654.923576: block_rq_complete: 8,0 WS () 0 + 0 [-5] As 8d6996630c03 introduce 'fq->rq_status', this data only update when 'flush_rq' reference count isn't zero. If flush request once failed and record error code in 'fq->rq_status'. If there is no chance to update 'fq->rq_status',then do fsync will always failed. To address this issue reset 'fq->rq_status' after return error code to upper layer. Fixes: 8d6996630c03("block: fix null pointer dereference in blk_mq_rq_timed_out()") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129012659.1553733-1-yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-flush.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/block/blk-flush.c +++ b/block/blk-flush.c @@ -236,8 +236,10 @@ static void flush_end_io(struct request * avoiding use-after-free. */ WRITE_ONCE(flush_rq->state, MQ_RQ_IDLE); - if (fq->rq_status != BLK_STS_OK) + if (fq->rq_status != BLK_STS_OK) { error = fq->rq_status; + fq->rq_status = BLK_STS_OK; + } if (!q->elevator) { flush_rq->tag = BLK_MQ_NO_TAG; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/block-fix-fsync-always-failed-if-once-failed.patch queue-5.10/ext4-fix-null-ptr-deref-in-__ext4_journal_ensure_credits.patch queue-5.10/ext4-fix-bug_on-in-ext4_bread-when-write-quota-data.patch