From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> On emergency remount we want to force MS_RDONLY on the super block even if ->remount_fs() failed for some reason. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> --- fs/super.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 3f56a26..363fde2 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -727,8 +727,13 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, void *data, int force) if (sb->s_op->remount_fs) { retval = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, data); - if (retval) - return retval; + if (retval) { + if(!force) + return retval; + /* If forced remount, go ahead despite any errors */ + WARN(1, "forced remount of a %s fs returned %i\n", + sb->s_type->name, retval); + } } sb->s_flags = (sb->s_flags & ~MS_RMT_MASK) | (flags & MS_RMT_MASK); -- 1.7.3.4 -- 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