[PATCH] vfs: try to unblock evpoll if mounted filesystem is RDONLY

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When inserting a rw optical disc like a DVD/CD rw disc, and we mount
it without an explicit ro option, the vfs will block its event poll
workqueue to protect it from damaging while writing to disc, the direct
result of the blocking of event poll is to make the eject button can't
work.

This protection is reasonable when the filesystem on the rw disc is
also rw. but if the filessytem on the rw disc is ro, e.g. the iso9660
and udf readonly partition, this protection is a little bit weird and
unneeded, since most people are going to be curious why the eject
button can't work while the mount is ro?

To make the eject button work again while the mounted filesystem is ro,
we should inspect the flags of the filesytem's sb and unblock the evpoll
conditionally, the code refers to the blkdev_put() in the
fs/block_dev.c.

Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <jason77.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
I personally don't know if this is a real defect or not, but this
issue is reported by a customer of our company, he said from the user
experience, this is a defect, since no matter the disc is ro or rw,
the mount is ro, the eject button should work.

so far, all DVD/CD and DVD-R/CD-R follow this rule (mount is ro, eject
button can work), but DVD/CD rw discs don't, no matter the mount is ro
or rw, the eject button always can't work. So our finial goal is to make
the eject button can work while the filesystem on the rw disc is ro and
the whole mounting is ro. 

 fs/super.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 7465d43..7980602 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1011,6 +1011,25 @@ struct dentry *mount_bdev(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 
 		s->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
 		bdev->bd_super = s;
+
+		mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+
+		if ((s->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && bdev->bd_write_holder) {
+			int bd_holders;
+
+			bd_holders = bdev->bd_holders;
+			if (bdev == bdev->bd_contains)
+				bd_holders -= 2;
+			else
+				bd_holders -= 1;
+
+			if (!bd_holders) {
+				disk_unblock_events(bdev->bd_disk);
+				bdev->bd_write_holder = false;
+			}
+		}
+
+		mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
 	}
 
 	return dget(s->s_root);
-- 
1.8.1.2

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