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When filesystem inconsistency is detected with group locked, we
currently try to modify superblock to store error there without
blocking. However this can cause superblock checksum failures (or
DIF/DIX failure) when the superblock is just being written out.

Make error handling code just store error information in ext4_sb_info
structure and copy it to on-disk superblock only in ext4_commit_super().
In case of error happening with group locked, we just postpone the
superblock flushing to a workqueue.

[ Added fixup so that s_first_error_* does not get updated after
  the file system is remounted.
  Also added fix for syzbot failure.  - Ted ]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201127113405.26867-8-jack@suse.cz

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+9043030c040ce1849a60@syzkaller.appspotmail.com