From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d3476f3dad4ad68ae5f6b008ea6591d1520da5d8 ] When the filesystem is mounted with errors=remount-ro, we were setting SB_RDONLY flag to stop all filesystem modifications. We knew this misses proper locking (sb->s_umount) and does not go through proper filesystem remount procedure but it has been the way this worked since early ext2 days and it was good enough for catastrophic situation damage mitigation. Recently, syzbot has found a way (see link) to trigger warnings in filesystem freezing because the code got confused by SB_RDONLY changing under its hands. Since these days we set EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN on the superblock which is enough to stop all filesystem modifications, modifying SB_RDONLY shouldn't be needed. So stop doing that. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000b90a8e061e21d12f@xxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240805201241.27286-1-jack@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 25cd0d662e31b..e8e32cf3e2228 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -735,11 +735,12 @@ static void ext4_handle_error(struct super_block *sb, bool force_ro, int error, ext4_msg(sb, KERN_CRIT, "Remounting filesystem read-only"); /* - * Make sure updated value of ->s_mount_flags will be visible before - * ->s_flags update + * EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN was set which stops all filesystem + * modifications. We don't set SB_RDONLY because that requires + * sb->s_umount semaphore and setting it without proper remount + * procedure is confusing code such as freeze_super() leading to + * deadlocks and other problems. */ - smp_wmb(); - sb->s_flags |= SB_RDONLY; } static void update_super_work(struct work_struct *work) -- 2.43.0
