If mount is auto-probing for filesystem type, it will try various filesystems in order, with the MS_SILENT flag set. We get that flag as the silent arg to ext4_fill_super. If we're probing (silent==1) then don't complain about feature incompatibilities that are found if it looks like it's actually a different valid extN type - failed probes should be silent in this case. If the on-disk features are unknown even to ext4, then complain. Reported-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- compile-tested only, sorry. V2. I lied. (actually I hand-edited the patch in mail) /Now/ it's compile tested, with the proper args to ext4_feature_set_ok :/ Having 2 gotos like this might not be preferable, but trying to write it more compactly led to what I thought was more difficult-to-read logic. diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index b0915b7..ae40368 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3659,6 +3659,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "mounting ext2 file system " "using the ext4 subsystem"); else { + /* + * If we're probing be silent, if this looks like + * it's actually an ext[34] filesystem. + */ + if (silent && ext4_feature_set_ok(sb, sb_rdonly(sb))) + goto failed_mount; ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "couldn't mount as ext2 due " "to feature incompatibilities"); goto failed_mount; @@ -3670,6 +3676,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "mounting ext3 file system " "using the ext4 subsystem"); else { + /* + * If we're probing be silent, if this looks like + * it's actually an ext4 filesystem. + */ + if (silent && ext4_feature_set_ok(sb, sb_rdonly(sb))) + goto failed_mount; ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "couldn't mount as ext3 due " "to feature incompatibilities"); goto failed_mount;