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

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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>

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zhangyi (F) 2020-06-20 10:54:23 +08:00 • committed by Theodore Ts'o

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