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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5] jbd: abort when failed to log metadata buffers
On Mon 02-06-08 19:46:02, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH 3/5] jbd: abort when failed to log metadata buffers
>
> If we failed to write metadata buffers to the journal space and
> succeeded to write the commit record, stale data can be written
> back to the filesystem as metadata in the recovery phase.
>
> To avoid this, when we failed to write out metadata buffers,
> abort the journal before writing the commit record.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Honza
> ---
> fs/jbd/commit.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.26-rc4/fs/jbd/commit.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.26-rc4.orig/fs/jbd/commit.c
> +++ linux-2.6.26-rc4/fs/jbd/commit.c
> @@ -734,6 +734,9 @@ wait_for_iobuf:
> /* AKPM: bforget here */
> }
>
> + if (err)
> + journal_abort(journal, err);
> +
> jbd_debug(3, "JBD: commit phase 6\n");
>
> if (journal_write_commit_record(journal, commit_transaction))
>
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR


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