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When syncing the log, if we fail to write log tree extent buffers, we mark the log for a full commit and abort the transaction. However we don't need to abort the transaction, all we really need to do is to make sure no one can commit a superblock pointing to new log tree roots. Just because we got a failure writing extent buffers for a log tree, it does not mean we will also fail to do a transaction commit. One particular case is if due to a bug somewhere, when writing log tree extent buffers, the tree checker detects some corruption and the writeout fails because of that. Aborting the transaction can be very disruptive for a user, specially if the issue happened on a root filesystem. One example is the scenario in the Link tag below, where an isolated corruption on log tree leaves was causing transaction aborts when syncing the log. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/ae169fc6-f504-28f0-a098-6fa6a4dfb612@leemhuis.info/ CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+ Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.