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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ext4: fix lockdep warning when enabling MMP" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-4.14.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 949f95ff39bf188e594e7ecd8e29b82eb108f5bf
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2023051546-either-second-fa36@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 4.14.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

949f95ff39bf ("ext4: fix lockdep warning when enabling MMP") 6810fad956df ("ext4: fix ext4_error_err save negative errno into superblock")

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 949f95ff39bf188e594e7ecd8e29b82eb108f5bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:10:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix lockdep warning when enabling MMP

When we enable MMP in ext4_multi_mount_protect() during mount or remount, we end up calling sb_start_write() from write_mmp_block(). This triggers lockdep warning because freeze protection ranks above s_umount semaphore we are holding during mount / remount. The problem is harmless because we are guaranteed the filesystem is not frozen during mount / remount but still let's fix the warning by not grabbing freeze protection from ext4_multi_mount_protect().

fs/ext4/mmp.c +21 -9
index 4022bc713421..0aaf38ffcb6e 100644
@@ -39,28 +39,36 @@ static void ext4_mmp_csum_set(struct super_block *sb, struct mmp_struct *mmp)
  * Write the MMP block using REQ_SYNC to try to get the block on-disk
  * faster.
  */
-static int write_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh)
+static int write_mmp_block_thawed(struct super_block *sb,
+				  struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
 	struct mmp_struct *mmp = (struct mmp_struct *)(bh->b_data);
 
-	/*
-	 * We protect against freezing so that we don't create dirty buffers
-	 * on frozen filesystem.
-	 */
-	sb_start_write(sb);
 	ext4_mmp_csum_set(sb, mmp);
 	lock_buffer(bh);
 	bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
 	get_bh(bh);
 	submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_SYNC | REQ_META | REQ_PRIO, bh);
 	wait_on_buffer(bh);
-	sb_end_write(sb);
 	if (unlikely(!buffer_uptodate(bh)))
 		return -EIO;
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int write_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	/*
+	 * We protect against freezing so that we don't create dirty buffers
+	 * on frozen filesystem.
+	 */
+	sb_start_write(sb);
+	err = write_mmp_block_thawed(sb, bh);
+	sb_end_write(sb);
+	return err;
+}
+
 /*
  * Read the MMP block. It _must_ be read from disk and hence we clear the
  * uptodate flag on the buffer.
@@ -344,7 +352,11 @@ int ext4_multi_mount_protect(struct super_block *sb,
 	seq = mmp_new_seq();
 	mmp->mmp_seq = cpu_to_le32(seq);
 
-	retval = write_mmp_block(sb, bh);
+	/*
+	 * On mount / remount we are protected against fs freezing (by s_umount
+	 * semaphore) and grabbing freeze protection upsets lockdep
+	 */
+	retval = write_mmp_block_thawed(sb, bh);
 	if (retval)
 		goto failed;