This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: don't try to modify s_flags if the the file system is read-only to the 3.4-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-try-to-modify-s_flags-if-the-the-file-system-is-read-only.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 23301410972330c0ae9a8afc379ba2005e249cc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:16:04 -0500 Subject: ext4: don't try to modify s_flags if the the file system is read-only From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> commit 23301410972330c0ae9a8afc379ba2005e249cc6 upstream. If an ext4 file system is created by some tool other than mke2fs (perhaps by someone who has a pathalogical fear of the GPL) that doesn't set one or the other of the EXT2_FLAGS_{UN}SIGNED_HASH flags, and that file system is then mounted read-only, don't try to modify the s_flags field. Otherwise, if dm_verity is in use, the superblock will change, causing an dm_verity failure. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 20 +++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -3370,16 +3370,22 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_ for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) sbi->s_hash_seed[i] = le32_to_cpu(es->s_hash_seed[i]); sbi->s_def_hash_version = es->s_def_hash_version; - i = le32_to_cpu(es->s_flags); - if (i & EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH) - sbi->s_hash_unsigned = 3; - else if ((i & EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH) == 0) { + if (EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX)) { + i = le32_to_cpu(es->s_flags); + if (i & EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH) + sbi->s_hash_unsigned = 3; + else if ((i & EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH) == 0) { #ifdef __CHAR_UNSIGNED__ - es->s_flags |= cpu_to_le32(EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH); - sbi->s_hash_unsigned = 3; + if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) + es->s_flags |= + cpu_to_le32(EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH); + sbi->s_hash_unsigned = 3; #else - es->s_flags |= cpu_to_le32(EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH); + if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) + es->s_flags |= + cpu_to_le32(EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH); #endif + } } /* Handle clustersize */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are queue-3.4/ext4-fix-online-resize-with-a-non-standard-blocks-per-group-setting.patch queue-3.4/ext4-don-t-try-to-modify-s_flags-if-the-the-file-system-is-read-only.patch queue-3.4/ext4-don-t-leave-i_crtime.tv_sec-uninitialized.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html