Patch "ext4: preserve the needs_recovery flag when the journal is aborted" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ext4: preserve the needs_recovery flag when the journal is aborted

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ext4-preserve-the-needs_recovery-flag-when-the-journal-is-aborted.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 23:38:06 -0500
Subject: ext4: preserve the needs_recovery flag when the journal is aborted

From: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>

commit 97abd7d4b5d9c48ec15c425485f054e1c15e591b upstream.

If the journal is aborted, the needs_recovery feature flag should not be removed. Otherwise, it's the journal might not get replayed and this could lead to more data getting lost.

---
 fs/ext4/super.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -793,6 +793,7 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_
 {
 	struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
 	struct ext4_super_block *es = sbi->s_es;
+	int aborted = 0;
 	int i, err;
 
 	ext4_unregister_li_request(sb);

@@ -802,9 +803,10 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_
 	destroy_workqueue(sbi->rsv_conversion_wq);
 
 	if (sbi->s_journal) {
+		aborted = is_journal_aborted(sbi->s_journal);
 		err = jbd2_journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal);
 		sbi->s_journal = NULL;
-		if (err < 0)
+		if ((err < 0) && !aborted)
 			ext4_abort(sb, "Couldn't clean up the journal");
 	}
 

@@ -816,7 +818,7 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_
 	ext4_ext_release(sb);
 	ext4_xattr_put_super(sb);
 
-	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
+	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && !aborted) {
 		ext4_clear_feature_journal_needs_recovery(sb);
 		es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state);
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ext4-fix-data-corruption-in-data-journal-mode.patch queue-4.4/ext4-return-erofs-if-device-is-r-o-and-journal-replay-is-needed.patch queue-4.4/ext4-include-forgotten-start-block-on-fallocate-insert-range.patch queue-4.4/ext4-preserve-the-needs_recovery-flag-when-the-journal-is-aborted.patch queue-4.4/ext4-trim-allocation-requests-to-group-size.patch queue-4.4/ext4-do-not-polute-the-extents-cache-while-shifting-extents.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-inline-data-error-paths.patch queue-4.4/jbd2-don-t-leak-modified-metadata-buffers-on-an-aborted-journal.patch