Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: do not update s_last_mounted of a frozen fs" failed to apply to 4.17-stable tree

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On Thu 05-07-18 20:07:32, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:29 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 06:27:01PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:25:43AM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:15 AM,  <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > The patch below does not apply to the 4.17-stable tree.
> >> >
> >> > There is a [backport hint] at the end of the commit message.
> >> > Need to take the 2 prep commits.
> >> > Same for all stable branches.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Amir.
> >> >
> >> > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> >> > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> >> > > id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> >> > >
> >> > > thanks,
> >> > >
> >> > > greg k-h
> >> > >
> >> > > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> >> > >
> >> > > From db6516a5e7ddb6dc72d167b920f2f272596ea22d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> > > From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> > > Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 22:54:44 -0400
> >> > > Subject: [PATCH] ext4: do not update s_last_mounted of a frozen fs
> >> > >
> >> > > If fs is frozen after mount and before the first file open, the
> >> > > update of s_last_mounted bypasses freeze protection and prints out
> >> > > a WARNING splat:
> >> > >
> >> > > $ mount /vdf
> >> > > $ fsfreeze -f /vdf
> >> > > $ cat /vdf/foo
> >> > >
> >> > > [   31.578555] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1415 at
> >> > > fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:53 ext4_journal_check_start+0x48/0x82
> >> > >
> >> > > [   31.614016] Call Trace:
> >> > > [   31.614997]  __ext4_journal_start_sb+0xe4/0x1a4
> >> > > [   31.616771]  ? ext4_file_open+0xb6/0x189
> >> > > [   31.618094]  ext4_file_open+0xb6/0x189
> >> > >
> >> > > If fs is frozen, skip s_last_mounted update.
> >> > >
> >> > > [backport hint: to apply to stable tree, need to apply also patches
> >> > >  vfs: add the sb_start_intwrite_trylock() helper
> >> > >  ext4: factor out helper ext4_sample_last_mounted()]
> >>
> >> For "hints", can you provide the git commit id in the future so I don't
> >> have to dig them out myself?
> >
> 
> That would be chicken and egg.
> I wrote the hint when I posted the series so there was no upstream commit id
> at the time. Maybe I should have written "need to apply the 2 previous patches"
> as a hint... or could have tried to push back on review comments to split the
> patches.
> 
> > And those backports don't apply properly :(
> >
> > Can you please provide a series of patches backported to the stable
> > trees you feel these should go to, so I can apply them?
> >
> 
> I can look into that sometime, but frankly, I don't feel strongly
> either way about applying those patches to stable.
> If anybody from ext4 developers can find the time to look into
> that, I wouldn't object at all..

I will be probably eventually backporting these patches to SLE kernels so I
can forward them to stable then as well. But since this is really more of
an annoyance than a serious problem, it doesn't have high priority.

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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