ext3/jbd: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write the superblock

This fixes a WARN backtrace in mark_buffer_dirty() that occurs during unmount
when the underlying block device is removed.  This bug has been seen on System
Z when removing all paths from a multipath-backed ext3 mount; on System P when
injecting enough PCI EEH errors to make the SCSI controller go offline; and
similar warnings have been seen (and patched) with ext2/ext4.

The super block update from a previous operation has marked the buffer as in
error, and the flag has to be cleared before doing the update. Similar changes
have been made to ext4 by commit 914258bf2cb22bf4336a1b1d90c551b4b11ca5aa.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c
index d7a86935553a..e56117651826 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(journal_force_commit);
 
 static int journal_convert_superblock_v1(journal_t *, journal_superblock_t *);
 static void __journal_abort_soft (journal_t *journal, int errno);
+static const char *journal_dev_name(journal_t *journal, char *buffer);
 
 /*
  * Helper function used to manage commit timeouts
@@ -1011,6 +1012,23 @@ void journal_update_superblock(journal_t *journal, int wait)
                 goto out;
         }
 
+        if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) {
+                char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+                /*
+                 * Oh, dear.  A previous attempt to write the journal
+                 * superblock failed.  This could happen because the
+                 * USB device was yanked out.  Or it could happen to
+                 * be a transient write error and maybe the block will
+                 * be remapped.  Nothing we can do but to retry the
+                 * write and hope for the best.
+                 */
+                printk(KERN_ERR "JBD: previous I/O error detected "
+                       "for journal superblock update for %s.\n",
+                       journal_dev_name(journal, b));
+                clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh);
+                set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
+        }
+
         spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
         jbd_debug(1,"JBD: updating superblock (start %u, seq %d, errno %d)\n",
                   journal->j_tail, journal->j_tail_sequence, journal->j_errno);
@@ -1022,9 +1040,17 @@ void journal_update_superblock(journal_t *journal, int wait)
 
         BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "marking dirty");
         mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
-        if (wait)
+        if (wait) {
                 sync_dirty_buffer(bh);
-        else
+                if (buffer_write_io_error(bh)) {
+                        char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+                        printk(KERN_ERR "JBD: I/O error detected "
+                               "when updating journal superblock for %s.\n",
+                               journal_dev_name(journal, b));
+                        clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh);
+                        set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
+                }
+        } else
                 write_dirty_buffer(bh, WRITE);
 
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