[patch 15/21] fs: improve remount,ro vs buffercache coherency

[patch 15/21] fs: improve remount,ro vs buffercache coherency

[akpm]

From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Invalidate sb->s_bdev on remount,ro.

Fixes a problem reported by Jorge Boncompte who is seeing corruption
trying to snapshot a minix filesystem image.  Some filesystems modify
their metadata via a path other than the bdev buffer cache (eg.  they may
use a private linear mapping for their metadata, or implement directories
in pagecache, etc).  Also, file data modifications usually go to the bdev
via their own mappings.

These updates are not coherent with buffercache IO (eg.  via /dev/bdev)
and never have been.  However there could be a reasonable expectation that
after a mount -oremount,ro operation then the buffercache should
subsequently be coherent with previous filesystem modifications.

So invalidate the bdev mappings on a remount,ro operation to provide a
coherency point.

The problem was exposed when we switched the old rd to brd because old rd
didn't really function like a normal block device and updates to rd via
mappings other than the buffercache would still end up going into its
buffercache.  But the same problem has always affected other "normal"
block devices, including loop.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair comment layout]
Reported-by: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
Tested-by: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/super.c |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/super.c~fs-improve-remountro-vs-buffercache-coherency fs/super.c
--- a/fs/super.c~fs-improve-remountro-vs-buffercache-coherency
+++ a/fs/super.c
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ out:
 int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, void *data, int force)
 {
 	int retval;
-	int remount_rw;
+	int remount_rw, remount_ro;
 	
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 	if (!(flags & MS_RDONLY) && bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev))
@@ -538,9 +538,12 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb
 	shrink_dcache_sb(sb);
 	sync_filesystem(sb);
 
+	remount_ro = (flags & MS_RDONLY) && !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY);
+	remount_rw = !(flags & MS_RDONLY) && (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY);
+
 	/* If we are remounting RDONLY and current sb is read/write,
 	   make sure there are no rw files opened */
-	if ((flags & MS_RDONLY) && !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
+	if (remount_ro) {
 		if (force)
 			mark_files_ro(sb);
 		else if (!fs_may_remount_ro(sb))
@@ -549,7 +552,6 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb
 		if (retval < 0 && retval != -ENOSYS)
 			return -EBUSY;
 	}
-	remount_rw = !(flags & MS_RDONLY) && (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY);
 
 	if (sb->s_op->remount_fs) {
 		retval = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, data);
@@ -559,6 +561,16 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb
 	sb->s_flags = (sb->s_flags & ~MS_RMT_MASK) | (flags & MS_RMT_MASK);
 	if (remount_rw)
 		vfs_dq_quota_on_remount(sb);
+	/*
+	 * Some filesystems modify their metadata via some other path than the
+	 * bdev buffer cache (eg. use a private mapping, or directories in
+	 * pagecache, etc). Also file data modifications go via their own
+	 * mappings. So If we try to mount readonly then copy the filesystem
+	 * from bdev, we could get stale data, so invalidate it to give a best
+	 * effort at coherency.
+	 */
+	if (remount_ro && sb->s_bdev)
+		invalidate_bdev(sb->s_bdev);
 	return 0;
 }
 
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