ext4: abort the filesystem if failed to async write metadata buffer

There is a risk of filesystem inconsistency if we failed to async write
back metadata buffer in the background. Because of current buffer's end
io procedure is handled by end_buffer_async_write() in the block layer,
and it only clear the buffer's uptodate flag and mark the write_io_error
flag, so ext4 cannot detect such failure immediately. In most cases of
getting metadata buffer (e.g. ext4_read_inode_bitmap()), although the
buffer's data is actually uptodate, it may still read data from disk
because the buffer's uptodate flag has been cleared. Finally, it may
lead to on-disk filesystem inconsistency if reading old data from the
disk successfully and write them out again.

This patch detect bdev mapping->wb_err when getting journal's write
access and mark the filesystem error if bdev's mapping->wb_err was
increased, this could prevent further writing and potential
inconsistency.

Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200620025427.1756360-2-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 4fba138b8722..26ae31a994a2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1603,6 +1603,9 @@ struct ext4_sb_info {
 #ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_DEBUG
 	unsigned long s_simulate_fail;
 #endif
+	/* Record the errseq of the backing block device */
+	errseq_t s_bdev_wb_err;
+	spinlock_t s_bdev_wb_lock;
 };
 
 static inline struct ext4_sb_info *EXT4_SB(struct super_block *sb)