IMA/EVM writing xattrs during remount filesystem

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Hi All,

When a filesystem is remounted from rw to ro then
sb_prepare_remount_readonly() is called. After this call there shouldn't
be any writers left on the filesystem. However, IMA/EVM is not aware of
this as it never calls mnt_want_write[_file](), but only looks add the
MS_RDONLY superblock flag before writing to its xattrs. This flag is
only changed after sb->s_op->remount_fs() is called. As a consequence
IMA/EVM still updates xattrs while the filesystem is going to readonly
mode.

We observed that on a 4.0 Kernel in conjunction with UBIFS, but the
relevant code in IMA/EVM still looks the same so I assume it's present
in the current kernel aswell.

UBIFS calculates its free space before and after the remount_fs op and
if there's a difference it prints a backtrace (dbg_check_space_info:
free space changed from x to y). We see this backtrace sometimes when
remounting the fs readonly. If I understand the situation correctly this
is not UBIFS's fault, right? Any hint what we can do about it?

Sascha

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