Commit d0ff9284 authored by Li Dongyang's avatar Li Dongyang Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

ext4: don't mark mmp buffer head dirty

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798617

commit fe18d649 upstream.

Marking mmp bh dirty before writing it will make writeback
pick up mmp block later and submit a write, we don't want the
duplicate write as kmmpd thread should have full control of
reading and writing the mmp block.
Another reason is we will also have random I/O error on
the writeback request when blk integrity is enabled, because
kmmpd could modify the content of the mmp block(e.g. setting
new seq and time) while the mmp block is under I/O requested
by writeback.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Dongyang <dongyangli@ddn.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent 5bc376ad
......@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ static int write_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh)
*/
sb_start_write(sb);
ext4_mmp_csum_set(sb, mmp);
mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
lock_buffer(bh);
bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
get_bh(bh);
......
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