On Sat 2019-10-12 21:55:24, Andrew Macks wrote:
> Sorry for version typo in the previous message.
>
> In addition to 4.19, the issue was also backported to 4.14 and 5.2.
>
> 4.14, 4.19 and 5.2 are all missing the EINVAL fix from 5.3.
Ouch.
Well, when I seen the patch, I thought "looks like the bug is not
serious enough for -stable". I guess I should have spoken up.
Anyway, I guess we need to either revert 59a5cea41dd0a or backport
38fb6d0ea34299d97b too....
So I guess Greg and lists need to be cc-ed... and
Thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble....
Pavel
> Andrew.
>
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 21:39, Andrew Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi - there is a nasty regression which was recently introduced into
> > longterm 4.19.76.
> >
> > 59a5cea41dd0ae706ab83f8ecd64199aadefb493 was committed to 4.19, however it
> > introduces a regression that filesystems no longer mount if do_mounts
> > iterates through them after F2FS. This surfaced on one of my servers as
> > F2FS superblock check happens before btrfs mount is attempted.
> >
> > With this code, my server panicked after kernel upgrade as btrfs mount
> > wasn't attempted.
> >
> > This issue has already been fixed in 5.3 with this patch in July, but it
> > was missed from the 4.19 backport.
> >
> > 38fb6d0ea34299d97b031ed64fe994158b6f8eb3
> > f2fs: use EINVAL for superblock with invalid magic
> >
> > Andypoo.
> >
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Thank you so much for taking care of this.
Hi Greg,
Could you please cherry-pick the below commit in -stable?
38fb6d0ea34299d97b031ed64fe994158b6f8eb3
f2fs: use EINVAL for superblock with invalid magic
Thanks,
On 10/13, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2019-10-12 21:55:24, Andrew Macks wrote:
> > Sorry for version typo in the previous message.
> >
> > In addition to 4.19, the issue was also backported to 4.14 and 5.2.
> >
> > 4.14, 4.19 and 5.2 are all missing the EINVAL fix from 5.3.
>
> Ouch.
>
> Well, when I seen the patch, I thought "looks like the bug is not
> serious enough for -stable". I guess I should have spoken up.
>
> Anyway, I guess we need to either revert 59a5cea41dd0a or backport
> 38fb6d0ea34299d97b too....
>
> So I guess Greg and lists need to be cc-ed... and
>
> Thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble....
>
> Pavel
>
>
> > Andrew.
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 21:39, Andrew Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi - there is a nasty regression which was recently introduced into
> > > longterm 4.19.76.
> > >
> > > 59a5cea41dd0ae706ab83f8ecd64199aadefb493 was committed to 4.19, however it
> > > introduces a regression that filesystems no longer mount if do_mounts
> > > iterates through them after F2FS. This surfaced on one of my servers as
> > > F2FS superblock check happens before btrfs mount is attempted.
> > >
> > > With this code, my server panicked after kernel upgrade as btrfs mount
> > > wasn't attempted.
> > >
> > > This issue has already been fixed in 5.3 with this patch in July, but it
> > > was missed from the 4.19 backport.
> > >
> > > 38fb6d0ea34299d97b031ed64fe994158b6f8eb3
> > > f2fs: use EINVAL for superblock with invalid magic
> > >
> > > Andypoo.
> > >
>
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> (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
> (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
On 2019/10/14 5:44, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2019-10-12 21:55:24, Andrew Macks wrote:
>> Sorry for version typo in the previous message.
>>
>> In addition to 4.19, the issue was also backported to 4.14 and 5.2.
>>
>> 4.14, 4.19 and 5.2 are all missing the EINVAL fix from 5.3.
>
> Ouch.
>
> Well, when I seen the patch, I thought "looks like the bug is not
> serious enough for -stable". I guess I should have spoken up.
>
> Anyway, I guess we need to either revert 59a5cea41dd0a or backport
> 38fb6d0ea34299d97b too....
>
> So I guess Greg and lists need to be cc-ed... and
>
> Thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble....
I'm so sorry to introduce original bug, the fixing patch ("f2fs: use EINVAL for
superblock with invalid magic") should be backported to stable kernel as soon as
possible.
Thanks,
>
> Pavel
>
>
>> Andrew.
>>
>> On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 21:39, Andrew Macks <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi - there is a nasty regression which was recently introduced into
>>> longterm 4.19.76.
>>>
>>> 59a5cea41dd0ae706ab83f8ecd64199aadefb493 was committed to 4.19, however it
>>> introduces a regression that filesystems no longer mount if do_mounts
>>> iterates through them after F2FS. This surfaced on one of my servers as
>>> F2FS superblock check happens before btrfs mount is attempted.
>>>
>>> With this code, my server panicked after kernel upgrade as btrfs mount
>>> wasn't attempted.
>>>
>>> This issue has already been fixed in 5.3 with this patch in July, but it
>>> was missed from the 4.19 backport.
>>>
>>> 38fb6d0ea34299d97b031ed64fe994158b6f8eb3
>>> f2fs: use EINVAL for superblock with invalid magic
>>>
>>> Andypoo.
>>>
>