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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] jbd: abort when failed to log metadata buffers
Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> 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>
> ---
> fs/jbd/commit.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1/fs/jbd/commit.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1.orig/fs/jbd/commit.c
> +++ linux-2.6.26-rc8-mm1/fs/jbd/commit.c
> @@ -762,6 +762,9 @@ 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))

A little late for me to chime in, but why is this a journal_abort() when
journal aborts before and after this call __journal_abort_hard()?

I'm just not sure what's different about this one condition that we wish
to update the error and the superblock here?

Thanks,
-Eric


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