This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: enable journal checksum when metadata checksum feature enabled to the 3.17-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-enable-journal-checksum-when-metadata-checksum-feature-enabled.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 98c1a7593fa355fda7f5a5940c8bf5326ca964ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:53:16 -0400 Subject: ext4: enable journal checksum when metadata checksum feature enabled From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 98c1a7593fa355fda7f5a5940c8bf5326ca964ba upstream. If metadata checksumming is turned on for the FS, we need to tell the journal to use checksumming too. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3498,6 +3498,10 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_ #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL set_opt(sb, POSIX_ACL); #endif + /* don't forget to enable journal_csum when metadata_csum is enabled. */ + if (ext4_has_metadata_csum(sb)) + set_opt(sb, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM); + if ((def_mount_opts & EXT4_DEFM_JMODE) == EXT4_DEFM_JMODE_DATA) set_opt(sb, JOURNAL_DATA); else if ((def_mount_opts & EXT4_DEFM_JMODE) == EXT4_DEFM_JMODE_ORDERED) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.17/ext4-check-s_chksum_driver-when-looking-for-bg-csum-presence.patch queue-3.17/ext4-check-ea-value-offset-when-loading.patch queue-3.17/x86-bpf_jit-fix-two-bugs-in-ebpf-jit-compiler.patch queue-3.17/jbd2-free-bh-when-descriptor-block-checksum-fails.patch queue-3.17/ext4-enable-journal-checksum-when-metadata-checksum-feature-enabled.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