On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 03:11:51PM -0700, Valerie Aurora wrote: > > Against 2.6.35. The rest of the series (whiteouts, fallthrus, > soon-to-be-obsolete copyup, etc.) is in branch "split_lookup" > in: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/val/linux-2.6.git I left out the first patch in this part of the series (there are patches before and after this one in the branch git repo). Here is patch -1 in the queue: Subject: VFS: Add hard read-only users count to superblock While we can check if a file system is currently read-only, we can't guarantee that it will stay read-only. The file system can be mounted or remounted read-write at any time. This is a problem for union mounts, which require the underlying file system be read-only for the entire duration of the union mount. Add a hard read-only users count to the superblock. When this count is non-zero, don't allow any read-write mounts of this super, or any read-write remounts of existing mounts. Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/super.c | 8 ++++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 938119a..3f2df09 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ out: */ static inline void destroy_super(struct super_block *s) { + BUG_ON(s->s_hard_readonly_users); security_sb_free(s); kfree(s->s_subtype); kfree(s->s_options); @@ -550,6 +551,9 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, void *data, int force) return -EBUSY; } + if (!(flags & MS_RDONLY) && sb->s_hard_readonly_users) + return -EROFS; + if (sb->s_op->remount_fs) { retval = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, data); if (retval) @@ -924,6 +928,10 @@ vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, const char *name, void WARN((mnt->mnt_sb->s_maxbytes < 0), "%s set sb->s_maxbytes to " "negative value (%lld)\n", type->name, mnt->mnt_sb->s_maxbytes); + error = -EROFS; + if (!(flags & MS_RDONLY) && mnt->mnt_sb->s_hard_readonly_users) + goto out_sb; + mnt->mnt_mountpoint = mnt->mnt_root; mnt->mnt_parent = mnt; up_write(&mnt->mnt_sb->s_umount); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 1ed7fe8..7dcb95b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1389,6 +1389,13 @@ struct super_block { * generic_show_options() */ char *s_options; + + /* + * Number of mounts requiring that the underlying file system + * never transition to read-write. Protected by s_umount. + * Decremented by free_vfsmnt() if MNT_HARD_READONLY is set. + */ + int s_hard_readonly_users; }; extern struct timespec current_fs_time(struct super_block *sb); -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html