This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: don't clear SB_RDONLY when remounting r/w until quota is re-enabled to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-don-t-clear-sb_rdonly-when-remounting-r-w-until.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cd3b51de8076604b6ec7ca38db6b858f28a2f2d9 Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri May 5 21:02:30 2023 -0400 ext4: don't clear SB_RDONLY when remounting r/w until quota is re-enabled [ Upstream commit a44be64bbecb15a452496f60db6eacfee2b59c79 ] When a file system currently mounted read/only is remounted read/write, if we clear the SB_RDONLY flag too early, before the quota is initialized, and there is another process/thread constantly attempting to create a directory, it's possible to trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE(dquot_initialize_needed(inode)); in ext4_xattr_block_set(), with the following stack trace: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5338 at fs/ext4/xattr.c:2141 ext4_xattr_block_set+0x2ef2/0x3680 RIP: 0010:ext4_xattr_block_set+0x2ef2/0x3680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2141 Call Trace: ext4_xattr_set_handle+0xcd4/0x15c0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2458 ext4_initxattrs+0xa3/0x110 fs/ext4/xattr_security.c:44 security_inode_init_security+0x2df/0x3f0 security/security.c:1147 __ext4_new_inode+0x347e/0x43d0 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1324 ext4_mkdir+0x425/0xce0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2992 vfs_mkdir+0x29d/0x450 fs/namei.c:4038 do_mkdirat+0x264/0x520 fs/namei.c:4061 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4076 [inline] __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4074 [inline] __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x89/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4074 Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230506142419.984260-1-tytso@xxxxxxx Reported-by: syzbot+6385d7d3065524c5ca6d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=6513f6cb5cd6b5fc9f37e3bb70d273b94be9c34c Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index b919f34bb35d6..c56192a84bf41 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -6339,6 +6339,7 @@ static int __ext4_remount(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb) struct ext4_mount_options old_opts; ext4_group_t g; int err = 0; + int enable_rw = 0; #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA int enable_quota = 0; int i, j; @@ -6525,7 +6526,7 @@ static int __ext4_remount(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb) if (err) goto restore_opts; - sb->s_flags &= ~SB_RDONLY; + enable_rw = 1; if (ext4_has_feature_mmp(sb)) { err = ext4_multi_mount_protect(sb, le64_to_cpu(es->s_mmp_block)); @@ -6584,6 +6585,9 @@ static int __ext4_remount(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb) if (!test_opt(sb, BLOCK_VALIDITY) && sbi->s_system_blks) ext4_release_system_zone(sb); + if (enable_rw) + sb->s_flags &= ~SB_RDONLY; + if (!ext4_has_feature_mmp(sb) || sb_rdonly(sb)) ext4_stop_mmpd(sbi);