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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>, eric.saint.etienne@oracle.com
Subject: [PATCH] tune2fs: prohibit toggling uninit_bg on live filesystems
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:32:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191120193255.GF6213@magnolia> (raw)

From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

An internal customer followed an erroneous AskUbuntu article[1] to try to
change the UUID of a live ext4 filesystem.  The article claims that you
can work around tune2fs' "cannot change UUID on live fs" error by
disabling uninit_bg, changing the UUID, and re-enabling the feature.

This led to metadata corruption because tune2fs' journal descriptor
rewrite races with regular filesystem writes.  Therefore, prevent
administrators from turning on or off uninit_bg on a mounted fs.

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/132079/how-do-i-change-uuid-of-a-disk-to-whatever-i-want/195839#459097

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
---
 misc/tune2fs.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/misc/tune2fs.c b/misc/tune2fs.c
index 8368a733..150dc916 100644
--- a/misc/tune2fs.c
+++ b/misc/tune2fs.c
@@ -1312,6 +1312,12 @@ static int update_feature_set(ext2_filsys fs, char *features)
 
 	if (FEATURE_ON(E2P_FEATURE_RO_INCOMPAT,
 		       EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM)) {
+		if (mount_flags & EXT2_MF_MOUNTED) {
+			fputs(_("Cannot enable uninit_bg on a mounted "
+				"filesystem!\n"), stderr);
+			exit(1);
+		}
+
 		/* Do not enable uninit_bg when metadata_csum enabled */
 		if (ext2fs_has_feature_metadata_csum(fs->super))
 			ext2fs_clear_feature_gdt_csum(fs->super);
@@ -1321,6 +1327,12 @@ static int update_feature_set(ext2_filsys fs, char *features)
 
 	if (FEATURE_OFF(E2P_FEATURE_RO_INCOMPAT,
 			EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM)) {
+		if (mount_flags & EXT2_MF_MOUNTED) {
+			fputs(_("Cannot disable uninit_bg on a mounted "
+				"filesystem!\n"), stderr);
+			exit(1);
+		}
+
 		err = disable_uninit_bg(fs,
 				EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM);
 		if (err)

             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-20 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-20 19:32 Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2019-11-21 18:22 ` [PATCH] tune2fs: prohibit toggling uninit_bg on live filesystems Theodore Y. Ts'o

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