[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] GFS2: mark the journal idle to fix ro mounts

[Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>]

When gfs2 was mounted read-only and then unmounted, it was writing a
header block to the journal in the syncing gfs2_log_flush() call from
kill_sb(). This is because the journal was not being marked as idle
until the first log header was written out, and on a read-only mount
there never was a log header written out. Since the journal was not
marked idle, gfs2_log_flush() was writing out a header lock to make
sure it was empty during the sync.  Not only did this cause IO to a
read-only filesystem, but the journalling isn't completely initialized
on read-only mounts, and so gfs2 was writing out the wrong sequence
number in the log header.

Now, the journal is marked idle on mount, and gfs2_log_flush() won't
write out anything until there starts being transactions to flush.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
index 8633ad3..fd984f6 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
@@ -757,6 +757,7 @@ static int init_journal(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, int undo)
 		}
 	}
 
+	sdp->sd_log_idle = 1;
 	set_bit(SDF_JOURNAL_CHECKED, &sdp->sd_flags);
 	gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&ji_gh);
 	jindex = 0;
-- 
1.8.3.1