This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfs: fix superblock inprogress check to the 4.7-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: xfs-fix-superblock-inprogress-check.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f3d7ebdeb2c297bd26272384e955033493ca291c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:01:30 +1000 Subject: xfs: fix superblock inprogress check From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f3d7ebdeb2c297bd26272384e955033493ca291c upstream. >From inspection, the superblock sb_inprogress check is done in the verifier and triggered only for the primary superblock via a "bp->b_bn == XFS_SB_DADDR" check. Unfortunately, the primary superblock is an uncached buffer, and hence it is configured by xfs_buf_read_uncached() with: bp->b_bn = XFS_BUF_DADDR_NULL; /* always null for uncached buffers */ And so this check never triggers. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_sb.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_sb.c +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_sb.c @@ -581,7 +581,8 @@ xfs_sb_verify( * Only check the in progress field for the primary superblock as * mkfs.xfs doesn't clear it from secondary superblocks. */ - return xfs_mount_validate_sb(mp, &sb, bp->b_bn == XFS_SB_DADDR, + return xfs_mount_validate_sb(mp, &sb, + bp->b_maps[0].bm_bn == XFS_SB_DADDR, check_version); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/xfs-fix-superblock-inprogress-check.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html