From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Switch device-mapper tables to READ-WRITE References: bnc#440959 Switching a device-mapper table to READ-ONLY works quite well, but we can't switch back to READ-WRITE as this change will be masked out. So get rid of this masking and use the flags directly. And implement a fallback to automatically switch to read-only. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke --- linux-2.6.27/drivers/md/dm-table.c.orig 2009-02-02 13:09:06.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.27/drivers/md/dm-table.c 2009-02-02 14:03:03.000000000 +0100 @@ -423,9 +423,13 @@ static int upgrade_mode(struct dm_dev *d dd_copy = *dd; - dd->mode |= new_mode; + dd->mode = new_mode; dd->bdev = NULL; r = open_dev(dd, dev, md); + if (r == -EROFS) { + dd->mode &= ~FMODE_WRITE; + r = open_dev(dd, dev, md); + } if (!r) close_dev(&dd_copy, md); else @@ -487,7 +491,7 @@ static int __table_get_device(struct dm_ atomic_set(&dd->count, 0); list_add(&dd->list, &t->devices); - } else if (dd->mode != (mode | dd->mode)) { + } else if (dd->mode != mode) { r = upgrade_mode(dd, mode, t->md); if (r) return r;