From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:26:50 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Don't write changes to the backup superblocks by default X-Git-Tag: E2FSPROGS-1_40~19 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=058ad1c70c9a097d282270c6f76d3c3493e15fe2;p=thirdparty%2Fe2fsprogs.git Don't write changes to the backup superblocks by default This patch changes ext2fs_open() to set EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY by default. This avoids some problems in e2fsck (reported by Jim Garlick) where a corrupt journal can end up writing the bad superblock to the backups. In general, only e2fsck (after the filesystem is clean), tune2fs, and resize2fs should change the backup superblocks by default. Most callers of ext2fs_open() should not be touching anything where the backups should be touched. So let's change the defaults to avoid potential problems. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- diff --git a/e2fsck/ChangeLog b/e2fsck/ChangeLog index fa40d282d..3fbeef2dd 100644 --- a/e2fsck/ChangeLog +++ b/e2fsck/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2007-06-18 Theodore Tso + + * journal.c (e2fsck_run_ext3_journal), unix.c (main): Explicitly + add the EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY flag to make sure we + won't write out the backup superblocks until we're sure + that we want write them out. + 2007-06-04 Theodore Tso * super.c (check_super_block, e2fsck_get_device_size), diff --git a/e2fsck/journal.c b/e2fsck/journal.c index f1e3ad02a..519df487c 100644 --- a/e2fsck/journal.c +++ b/e2fsck/journal.c @@ -832,6 +832,7 @@ int e2fsck_run_ext3_journal(e2fsck_t ctx) } ctx->fs->priv_data = ctx; ctx->fs->now = ctx->now; + ctx->fs->flags |= EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY; /* Set the superblock flags */ e2fsck_clear_recover(ctx, recover_retval); diff --git a/e2fsck/unix.c b/e2fsck/unix.c index 79578944a..72091f882 100644 --- a/e2fsck/unix.c +++ b/e2fsck/unix.c @@ -981,6 +981,18 @@ restart: fix_problem(ctx, PR_0_SB_CORRUPT, &pctx); fatal_error(ctx, 0); } + /* + * We only update the master superblock because (a) paranoia; + * we don't want to corrupt the backup superblocks, and (b) we + * don't need to update the mount count and last checked + * fields in the backup superblock (the kernel doesn't update + * the backup superblocks anyway). With newer versions of the + * library this flag is set by ext2fs_open2(), but we set this + * here just to be sure. (No, we don't support e2fsck running + * with some other libext2fs than the one that it was shipped + * with, but just in case....) + */ + fs->flags |= EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY; if (!(ctx->flags & E2F_FLAG_GOT_DEVSIZE)) { __u32 blocksize = EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE(fs->super); @@ -1127,15 +1139,6 @@ restart: !(ctx->options & E2F_OPT_READONLY)) ext2fs_mark_super_dirty(fs); - /* - * We only update the master superblock because (a) paranoia; - * we don't want to corrupt the backup superblocks, and (b) we - * don't need to update the mount count and last checked - * fields in the backup superblock (the kernel doesn't - * update the backup superblocks anyway). - */ - fs->flags |= EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY; - ehandler_init(fs->io); if (ctx->superblock) diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/ChangeLog b/lib/ext2fs/ChangeLog index 9eb5ef964..02604b508 100644 --- a/lib/ext2fs/ChangeLog +++ b/lib/ext2fs/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2007-06-12 Theodore Tso + + * openfs.c (ext2fs_open2): We now set EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY + when we open a filesystem. Applications that want to + write changes to the backup superblocks need to explicitly + clear this flag. + 2007-05-31 Theodore Tso * tst_super_size.c (main): Add sanity check to make sure the diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/openfs.c b/lib/ext2fs/openfs.c index ea1037304..55cc07710 100644 --- a/lib/ext2fs/openfs.c +++ b/lib/ext2fs/openfs.c @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ errcode_t ext2fs_open2(const char *name, const char *io_options, memset(fs, 0, sizeof(struct struct_ext2_filsys)); fs->magic = EXT2_ET_MAGIC_EXT2FS_FILSYS; fs->flags = flags; + /* don't overwrite sb backups unless flag is explicitly cleared */ + fs->flags |= EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY; fs->umask = 022; retval = ext2fs_get_mem(strlen(name)+1, &fs->device_name); if (retval) diff --git a/misc/ChangeLog b/misc/ChangeLog index 5b680c5f9..d1b4b7951 100644 --- a/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2007-06-12 Theodore Tso + + * tune2fs.c (main): Clear the EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY flag + because we want tune2fs changes to get written to the + backup blocks. + 2007-06-04 Theodore Tso * badblocks.c (main): Fix error checking of the last-block and diff --git a/misc/tune2fs.c b/misc/tune2fs.c index 967b58935..833b99430 100644 --- a/misc/tune2fs.c +++ b/misc/tune2fs.c @@ -780,6 +780,7 @@ int main (int argc, char ** argv) exit(1); } sb = fs->super; + fs->flags &= ~EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY; if (print_label) { /* For e2label emulation */ printf("%.*s\n", (int) sizeof(sb->s_volume_name), diff --git a/resize/ChangeLog b/resize/ChangeLog index e1f616bfa..9c8a8c21e 100644 --- a/resize/ChangeLog +++ b/resize/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2007-06-12 Theodore Tso + + * resize2fs.c (resize_fs): Clear the EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY flag + to make sure the superblock changes are written out to the + backup superblocks. + 2007-05-22 Theodore Tso * sim_progress.c (ext2fs_progress_init): Fix type-punning warning. diff --git a/resize/resize2fs.c b/resize/resize2fs.c index a25cb05af..0d6a08241 100644 --- a/resize/resize2fs.c +++ b/resize/resize2fs.c @@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ errcode_t resize_fs(ext2_filsys fs, blk_t *new_size, int flags, if (retval) goto errout; + rfs->new_fs->flags &= ~EXT2_FLAG_MASTER_SB_ONLY; retval = ext2fs_close(rfs->new_fs); if (retval) goto errout;