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 34d1eb0e599875064955a74712f08ff14c8e3d5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:22:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: don't clear ret in btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups

If we fail to update a block group item in the loop we'll break, however we'll do btrfs_run_delayed_refs and lose our error value in ret, and thus not clean up properly. Fix this by only running the delayed refs if there was no failure.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+ Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com Reviewed-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/block-group.c b/fs/btrfs/block-group.c index 52f2198d44c9..0886e81e5540 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/block-group.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/block-group.c @@ -2669,7 +2669,8 @@ int btrfs_start_dirty_block_groups(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans) * Go through delayed refs for all the stuff we've just kicked off * and then loop back (just once) */ - ret = btrfs_run_delayed_refs(trans, 0); + if (!ret) + ret = btrfs_run_delayed_refs(trans, 0); if (!ret && loops == 0) { loops++; spin_lock(&cur_trans->dirty_bgs_lock);