I hit the BUG_ON after munmap a file. BUGON at fs/ext4/inode.c line :2245 mpage_prepare_extent_to_map ... head = page_buffers(page); //bug on at here when io err happened at ext4_writepages->mpage_map_and_submit_extent,ext4 return err from mpage_map_and_submit_extent->mpage_map_one_extent. Then ext4 set give_up_on_write be true to discard dirty pages to avoid infinite loops. But in mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write), ext4 didn't clean the pte->dirty. when page munmaped,unmap_page_range->zap_pud_range->zap_pte_range set_page_dirty again will cause the bugon at fs/ext4/inode.c line :2245. root/mm/memory.c zap_pte_range 1145: if (pte_dirty(ptent)) 1146: set_page_dirty(page); //set again cause bugon I clear_page_dirty_for_io in mpage_release_unused_pages can solve the bugon. if (invalidate) { + if (page_mapped(page)) + { + clear_page_dirty_for_io(page); + ) block_invalidatepage_range(page, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); ClearPageUptodate(page); but i am not sure the patch is ok.