Hi, Please apply commit ce654b37 to any stable kernel out there. The relevant ext4 patch is in Ted's tree and has not reached mainline yet. Ted, can you please add CC: stable to my patch. Thanks, Amir. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat 26-02-11 22:40:19, Amir Goldstein wrote: >> Orphan cleanup is currently executed even on readonly mount. >> It deletes inodes and frees blocks, which could be very bad for some >> RO_COMPAT features, HAS_SNAPSHOT to name one. >> >> Now the damage is done, because current stock kernels may >> corrupt future fs with readonly compatible features, >> when doing orphan cleanup. >> >> This patch skips the orphan cleanup if readonly compatible features >> would prevent the fs from being mounted (or remounted) readwrite. > Thanks Amir. I actually took the version Ted committed to ext4 and ported > it for ext3. Anyway, the patch is in my tree. > > Honza > > -- > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > SUSE Labs, CR > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
