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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: disallow ro->rw remount on norecovery mount
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 07:59:58 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150326205958.GD28129@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55146612.1070306@redhat.com>

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 03:03:30PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> There's a bit of a loophole in norecovery mount handling right
> now: an initial mount must be readonly, but nothing prevents
> a mount -o remount,rw from producing a writable, unrecovered
> xfs filesystem.
> 
> It might be possible to try to perform a log recovery when this
> is requested, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.  For now,
> simply disallow this sort of transition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Good catch.

Shouldn't this also check for a ro block device, and disallow the
rw remount if the block dev is ro?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-26 20:03 [PATCH] xfs: disallow ro->rw remount on norecovery mount Eric Sandeen
2015-03-26 20:59 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2015-03-26 21:13   ` Eric Sandeen

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