This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix to check return value of freeze_bdev() in ext4_shutdown() to the 4.19-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: ext4-fix-to-check-return-value-of-freeze_bdev-in-ext.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 826868a6fbf2d4872ac66c84b4113c40eacda129 Author: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jun 6 15:32:03 2023 +0800 ext4: fix to check return value of freeze_bdev() in ext4_shutdown() [ Upstream commit c4d13222afd8a64bf11bc7ec68645496ee8b54b9 ] freeze_bdev() can fail due to a lot of reasons, it needs to check its reason before later process. Fixes: 783d94854499 ("ext4: add EXT4_IOC_GOINGDOWN ioctl") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606073203.1310389-1-chao@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c index b930e8d559d41..43e036f0b661d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ static int ext4_shutdown(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long arg) { struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb); __u32 flags; + struct super_block *ret; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; @@ -579,7 +580,9 @@ static int ext4_shutdown(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long arg) switch (flags) { case EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_DEFAULT: - freeze_bdev(sb->s_bdev); + ret = freeze_bdev(sb->s_bdev); + if (IS_ERR(ret)) + return PTR_ERR(ret); set_bit(EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN, &sbi->s_ext4_flags); thaw_bdev(sb->s_bdev, sb); break;