sync_filesystem() does not sync dirty data for readonly filesystem during umount, so before changing to readonly filesystem we should sync dirty data for data integrity. Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index f57aa348dcd6..1bab326342bc 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -364,11 +364,20 @@ static int ovl_show_options(struct seq_file *m, struct dentry *dentry) static int ovl_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) { struct ovl_fs *ofs = sb->s_fs_info; + struct super_block *upper_sb; + int ret = 0; if (!(*flags & SB_RDONLY) && ovl_force_readonly(ofs)) return -EROFS; - return 0; + if (*flags & SB_RDONLY && !sb_rdonly(sb)) { + upper_sb = ofs->upper_mnt->mnt_sb; + down_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); + ret = sync_filesystem(upper_sb); + up_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); + } + + return ret; } static const struct super_operations ovl_super_operations = { -- 2.20.1