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jbd2: fix the inconsistency between checksum and data in memory for journal sb
authorYe Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:06:38 +0000 (20:06 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:12:03 +0000 (13:12 +0100)
commit9f48638b2f7e5e8393e061b21e66ebfb3a4bca49
tree06c5fa07bbeb9aa7a69f91ec6dd61abc1a878eb2
parente88750d9fadfaf10e91318cc65184ca5c6472ceb
jbd2: fix the inconsistency between checksum and data in memory for journal sb

[ Upstream commit 6abfe107894af7e8ce3a2e120c619d81ee764ad5 ]

Copying the file system while it is mounted as read-only results in
a mount failure:
[~]# mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sdc
[~]# mount /dev/sdc -o ro /mnt/test
[~]# dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sda bs=1M
[~]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/test1
[ 1094.849826] JBD2: journal checksum error
[ 1094.850927] EXT4-fs (sda): Could not load journal inode
mount: mount /dev/sda on /mnt/test1 failed: Bad message

The process described above is just an abstracted way I came up with to
reproduce the issue. In the actual scenario, the file system was mounted
read-only and then copied while it was still mounted. It was found that
the mount operation failed. The user intended to verify the data or use
it as a backup, and this action was performed during a version upgrade.
Above issue may happen as follows:
ext4_fill_super
 set_journal_csum_feature_set(sb)
  if (ext4_has_metadata_csum(sb))
   incompat = JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_CSUM_V3;
  if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM)
   jbd2_journal_set_features(sbi->s_journal, compat, 0, incompat);
    lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);
    sb->s_feature_incompat  |= cpu_to_be32(incompat);
    //The data in the journal sb was modified, but the checksum was not
      updated, so the data remaining in memory has a mismatch between the
      data and the checksum.
    unlock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer);

In this case, the journal sb copied over is in a state where the checksum
and data are inconsistent, so mounting fails.
To solve the above issue, update the checksum in memory after modifying
the journal sb.

Fixes: 4fd5ea43bc11 ("jbd2: checksum journal superblock")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-ID: <20251103010123.3753631-1-yebin@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
[ Changed jbd2_superblock_csum(sb) to jbd2_superblock_csum(journal, sb) ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/jbd2/journal.c