JOURNAL is optional for EXT4 (and EXT3) filesystems, so add support for skipping it. This fixes corrupting EXT4 volumes without JOURNAL after using uboot's 'ext4write' command.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com --- fs/ext4/ext4_journal.c | 4 ++++ fs/ext4/ext4_journal.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_journal.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_journal.c index 6adbab93a68..3559daf11d2 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_journal.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_journal.c @@ -645,6 +645,10 @@ void ext4fs_update_journal(void) struct ext_filesystem *fs = get_fs(); long int blknr; int i; + + if (!(fs->sb->feature_compatibility & EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL)) + return; + ext4fs_read_inode(ext4fs_root, EXT2_JOURNAL_INO, &inode_journal); blknr = read_allocated_block(&inode_journal, jrnl_blk_idx++, NULL); update_descriptor_block(blknr); diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_journal.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_journal.h index c9cf195f333..43fb8e76641 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ext4_journal.h +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_journal.h @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ #ifndef __EXT4_JRNL__ #define __EXT4_JRNL__
+#define EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL 0x0004 + #define EXT2_JOURNAL_INO 8 /* Journal inode */ #define EXT2_JOURNAL_SUPERBLOCK 0 /* Journal Superblock number */