ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal
commit1ba9a27ec24b133799bc1b8a77d733c4015d0abd
authorMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:08:16 +0000 (25 14:08 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:43:57 +0000 (17 08:43 -0800)
tree106791a88f3767d40e74d4fb440cbb52f54d0ced
parent7c558b7eb837ca7bc014af2f5509be143c3c3670
ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal

commit d096ad0f79a782935d2e06ae8fb235e8c5397775 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/ext4/super.c