The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From d0a58e833931234c44e515b5b8bede32bd4e6eed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 07:05:41 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: disallow rw remount on fs with unknown ro-compat
features
Today, a kernel which refuses to mount a filesystem read-write
due to unknown ro-compat features can still transition to read-write
via the remount path. The old kernel is most likely none the wiser,
because it's unaware of the new feature, and isn't using it. However,
writing to the filesystem may well corrupt metadata related to that
new feature, and moving to a newer kernel which understand the feature
will have problems.
Right now the only ro-compat feature we have is the free inode btree,
which showed up in v3.16. It would be good to push this back to
all the active stable kernels, I think, so that if anyone is using
newer mkfs (which enables the finobt feature) with older kernel
releases, they'll be protected.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.10.x-
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <billodo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index d760934109b5..ca058a153c15 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1276,6 +1276,16 @@ xfs_fs_remount(
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (XFS_SB_VERSION_NUM(sbp) == XFS_SB_VERSION_5 &&
+ xfs_sb_has_ro_compat_feature(sbp,
+ XFS_SB_FEAT_RO_COMPAT_UNKNOWN)) {
+ xfs_warn(mp,
+"ro->rw transition prohibited on unknown (0x%x) ro-compat filesystem",
+ (sbp->sb_features_ro_compat &
+ XFS_SB_FEAT_RO_COMPAT_UNKNOWN));
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY;
/*
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