This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfs: make freeze_super abort when sync_filesystem returns error to the 5.16-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: vfs-make-freeze_super-abort-when-sync_filesystem-ret.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ffdd8991230b9512b83886b69064d7020f1f4360 Author: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jan 30 08:53:16 2022 -0800 vfs: make freeze_super abort when sync_filesystem returns error [ Upstream commit 2719c7160dcfaae1f73a1c0c210ad3281c19022e ] If we fail to synchronize the filesystem while preparing to freeze the fs, abort the freeze. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index a6405d44d4ca2..d978dd031a036 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -1619,11 +1619,9 @@ static void lockdep_sb_freeze_acquire(struct super_block *sb) percpu_rwsem_acquire(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level, 0, _THIS_IP_); } -static void sb_freeze_unlock(struct super_block *sb) +static void sb_freeze_unlock(struct super_block *sb, int level) { - int level; - - for (level = SB_FREEZE_LEVELS - 1; level >= 0; level--) + for (level--; level >= 0; level--) percpu_up_write(sb->s_writers.rw_sem + level); } @@ -1694,7 +1692,14 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb) sb_wait_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT); /* All writers are done so after syncing there won't be dirty data */ - sync_filesystem(sb); + ret = sync_filesystem(sb); + if (ret) { + sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN; + sb_freeze_unlock(sb, SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT); + wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen); + deactivate_locked_super(sb); + return ret; + } /* Now wait for internal filesystem counter */ sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_FS; @@ -1706,7 +1711,7 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb) printk(KERN_ERR "VFS:Filesystem freeze failed\n"); sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN; - sb_freeze_unlock(sb); + sb_freeze_unlock(sb, SB_FREEZE_FS); wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen); deactivate_locked_super(sb); return ret; @@ -1751,7 +1756,7 @@ static int thaw_super_locked(struct super_block *sb) } sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN; - sb_freeze_unlock(sb); + sb_freeze_unlock(sb, SB_FREEZE_FS); out: wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen); deactivate_locked_super(sb);