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ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal

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When a journal-less ext4 filesystem is mounted on a read-only block
device (blockdev --setro will do), each remount (for other, unrelated,
flags, like suid=>nosuid etc) results in a series of scary messages
from kernel telling about I/O errors on the device.

This is becauese of the following code ext4_remount():

       if (sbi->s_journal == NULL)
                ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);

at the end of remount procedure, which forces writing (flushing) of
a superblock regardless whenever it is dirty or not, if the filesystem
is readonly or not, and whenever the device itself is readonly or not.

We only need call ext4_commit_super when the file system had been
previously mounted read/write.

Thanks to Eric Sandeen for help in diagnosing this issue.

Signed-off-By: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Michael Tokarev 2012-12-25 14:08:16 -05:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 0875a2b448
commit d096ad0f79
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@ -4729,7 +4729,7 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
} }
ext4_setup_system_zone(sb); ext4_setup_system_zone(sb);
if (sbi->s_journal == NULL) if (sbi->s_journal == NULL && !(old_sb_flags & MS_RDONLY))
ext4_commit_super(sb, 1); ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
#ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA