From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 2a7eaea02b99b6e267b1e89c79acc6e9a51cee3b upstream. You can't modify the metadata in these modes. It's better to fail these messages immediately than let the block-manager deny write locks on metadata blocks. Otherwise these failed metadata changes will trigger 'needs_check' to get set in the metadata superblock -- requiring repair using the thin_check utility. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c index 0396d7fc1d8b..d2b3563129c2 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c @@ -2507,6 +2507,12 @@ static int pool_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv) struct pool_c *pt = ti->private; struct pool *pool = pt->pool; + if (get_pool_mode(pool) >= PM_READ_ONLY) { + DMERR("%s: unable to service pool target messages in READ_ONLY or FAIL mode", + dm_device_name(pool->pool_md)); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (!strcasecmp(argv[0], "create_thin")) r = process_create_thin_mesg(argc, argv, pool); -- 2.2.2 -- 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