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| author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2011-11-21 15:11:31 +0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-01-07 08:20:12 +0400 |
| commit | 4ed5e82fe77f4147cf386327c9a63a2dd7eff518 (patch) | |
| tree | f4eaeefaf5d293014457892ac31f878eece07331 /fs/super.c | |
| parent | 39f7c4db1d2d9e2e2a90abdf34811783089d217d (diff) | |
| download | linux-4ed5e82fe77f4147cf386327c9a63a2dd7eff518.tar.xz | |
vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
Currently remouting superblock read-only is racy in a major way.
With the per mount read-only infrastructure it is now possible to
prevent most races, which this patch attempts.
Before starting the remount read-only, iterate through all mounts
belonging to the superblock and if none of them have any pending
writes, set sb->s_readonly_remount. This indicates that remount is in
progress and no further write requests are allowed. If the remount
succeeds set MS_RDONLY and reset s_readonly_remount.
If the remounting is unsuccessful just reset s_readonly_remount.
This can result in transient EROFS errors, despite the fact the
remount failed. Unfortunately hodling off writes is difficult as
remount itself may touch the filesystem (e.g. through load_nls())
which would deadlock.
A later patch deals with delayed writes due to nlink going to zero.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/super.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/super.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 993ca8f128d6..6acc02237e3e 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -723,23 +723,33 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, void *data, int force) /* If we are remounting RDONLY and current sb is read/write, make sure there are no rw files opened */ if (remount_ro) { - if (force) + if (force) { mark_files_ro(sb); - else if (!fs_may_remount_ro(sb)) - return -EBUSY; + } else { + retval = sb_prepare_remount_readonly(sb); + if (retval) + return retval; + + retval = -EBUSY; + if (!fs_may_remount_ro(sb)) + goto cancel_readonly; + } } if (sb->s_op->remount_fs) { retval = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, data); if (retval) { if (!force) - return retval; + goto cancel_readonly; /* If forced remount, go ahead despite any errors */ WARN(1, "forced remount of a %s fs returned %i\n", sb->s_type->name, retval); } } sb->s_flags = (sb->s_flags & ~MS_RMT_MASK) | (flags & MS_RMT_MASK); + /* Needs to be ordered wrt mnt_is_readonly() */ + smp_wmb(); + sb->s_readonly_remount = 0; /* * Some filesystems modify their metadata via some other path than the @@ -752,6 +762,10 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, void *data, int force) if (remount_ro && sb->s_bdev) invalidate_bdev(sb->s_bdev); return 0; + +cancel_readonly: + sb->s_readonly_remount = 0; + return retval; } static void do_emergency_remount(struct work_struct *work) |