This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error() to the 4.15-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-save-error-to-disk-in-__ext4_grp_locked_error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 06f29cc81f0350261f59643a505010531130eea0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:34:19 -0500 Subject: ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error() From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> commit 06f29cc81f0350261f59643a505010531130eea0 upstream. In the function __ext4_grp_locked_error(), __save_error_info() is called to save error info in super block block, but does not sync that information to disk to info the subsequence fsck after reboot. This patch writes the error information to disk. After this patch, I think there is no obvious EXT4 error handle branches which leads to "Remounting filesystem read-only" will leave the disk partition miss the subsequence fsck. Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -742,6 +742,7 @@ __acquires(bitlock) } ext4_unlock_group(sb, grp); + ext4_commit_super(sb, 1); ext4_handle_error(sb); /* * We only get here in the ERRORS_RO case; relocking the group Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/ext4-save-error-to-disk-in-__ext4_grp_locked_error.patch