Re: Bug with read only handling in mount

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On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 12:49:43PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > static struct dentry *isofs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
> >         int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data)
> > {                                 
> >         /* We don't support read-write mounts */
> >         if (!(flags & MS_RDONLY)) 
> >                 return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
> >         return mount_bdev(fs_type, flags, dev_name, data, isofs_fill_super);
> > }
> > 
> > This is crazy... iso9600 driver starts analyze mount options although
> > the mount request is maybe completely irrelevant for the driver and 
> > there is no iso9600 on the device. 
> > 
> > If we will write FS drivers in this way then old good "try all from
> > /{proc,etc}/filesystems" will be useless...
> > 
> > See another filesystems, for example ext4, first be sure there is
> > superblock and magic string (or return EINVAL) and then try 
> > validate mount options.
> > 
> > CC to Jan Kara (he did the kernel change in Jun 2013).
> 
> Good point. I'll fix iso9660.

Thanks! 

I have a patch for mount(8), but it's rather complex, because the
/{proc,etc}/filesystems loop is hidden in libmount. I guess move the
MS_RDONLY check in the iso9660 kernel driver will be easy fix.

    Karel

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