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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,  linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: don't set SB_RDONLY after filesystem errors
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 12:50:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240806-passt-weitgehend-6f1a0e7f3dbb@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240805201241.27286-1-jack@suse.cz>

On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 10:12:41PM GMT, Jan Kara wrote:
> When the filesystem is mounted with errors=remount-ro, we were setting
> SB_RDONLY flag to stop all filesystem modifications. We knew this misses
> proper locking (sb->s_umount) and does not go through proper filesystem
> remount procedure but it has been the way this worked since early ext2
> days and it was good enough for catastrophic situation damage
> mitigation. Recently, syzbot has found a way (see link) to trigger
> warnings in filesystem freezing because the code got confused by
> SB_RDONLY changing under its hands. Since these days we set
> EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN on the superblock which is enough to stop all
> filesystem modifications, modifying SB_RDONLY shouldn't be needed. So
> stop doing that.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000b90a8e061e21d12f@google.com
> Reported-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> ---

Thank you!
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-06 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-05 20:12 [PATCH] ext4: don't set SB_RDONLY after filesystem errors Jan Kara
2024-08-06 10:50 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2024-08-08 16:16 ` Jan Kara
2024-08-27 12:47 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-09-30 10:15 ` Jan Stancek
2024-09-30 11:34   ` Jan Kara
2024-10-04 12:32     ` [LTP] " Amir Goldstein
2024-10-04 12:50       ` Jan Stancek
2024-10-04 13:28         ` Amir Goldstein
2024-10-04 14:31           ` Jan Kara
2024-10-04 19:33       ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2024-10-06  3:38         ` Theodore Ts'o

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