The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree. 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@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From b08070eca9e247f60ab39d79b2c25d274750441f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:33:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: don't remount read-only with errors=continue on reboot
ext4_handle_error() with errors=continue mount option can accidentally remount the filesystem read-only when the system is rebooting. Fix that.
Fixes: 1dc1097ff60e ("ext4: avoid panic during forced reboot") Signed-off-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger adilger@dilger.ca Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127113405.26867-2-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 872d45a131ca..3ef84e8ab1ae 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -666,19 +666,17 @@ static bool system_going_down(void)
static void ext4_handle_error(struct super_block *sb) { + journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal; + if (test_opt(sb, WARN_ON_ERROR)) WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
- if (sb_rdonly(sb)) + if (sb_rdonly(sb) || test_opt(sb, ERRORS_CONT)) return;
- if (!test_opt(sb, ERRORS_CONT)) { - journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal; - - ext4_set_mount_flag(sb, EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED); - if (journal) - jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EIO); - } + ext4_set_mount_flag(sb, EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED); + if (journal) + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EIO); /* * We force ERRORS_RO behavior when system is rebooting. Otherwise we * could panic during 'reboot -f' as the underlying device got already