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ext4: don't set SB_RDONLY after filesystem errors
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Mon, 5 Aug 2024 20:12:41 +0000 (22:12 +0200)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:53:20 +0000 (23:53 -0400)
commitd3476f3dad4ad68ae5f6b008ea6591d1520da5d8
tree08c6ca8556271e0e13aac77f139e070c2073504a
parentd1bc560e9a9c78d0b2314692847fc8661e0aeb99
ext4: don't set SB_RDONLY after filesystem errors

When the filesystem is mounted with errors=remount-ro, we were setting
SB_RDONLY flag to stop all filesystem modifications. We knew this misses
proper locking (sb->s_umount) and does not go through proper filesystem
remount procedure but it has been the way this worked since early ext2
days and it was good enough for catastrophic situation damage
mitigation. Recently, syzbot has found a way (see link) to trigger
warnings in filesystem freezing because the code got confused by
SB_RDONLY changing under its hands. Since these days we set
EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN on the superblock which is enough to stop all
filesystem modifications, modifying SB_RDONLY shouldn't be needed. So
stop doing that.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000b90a8e061e21d12f@google.com
Reported-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240805201241.27286-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/super.c