6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Baokun Li libaokun1@huawei.com
[ Upstream commit f2326fd14a224e4cccbab89e14c52279ff79b7ec ]
IMA testing revealed that after an ext4 remount, file accesses triggered full measurements even without modifications, instead of skipping as expected when i_version is unchanged.
Debugging showed `SB_I_VERSION` was cleared in reconfigure_super() during remount due to commit 1ff20307393e ("ext4: unconditionally enable the i_version counter") removing the fix from commit 960e0ab63b2e ("ext4: fix i_version handling on remount").
To rectify this, `SB_I_VERSION` is always set for `fc->sb_flags` in ext4_init_fs_context(), instead of `sb->s_flags` in __ext4_fill_super(), ensuring it persists across all mounts.
Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: 1ff20307393e ("ext4: unconditionally enable the i_version counter") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li libaokun1@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250703073903.6952-2-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu [ Adjust context ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/ext4/super.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -1937,6 +1937,9 @@ int ext4_init_fs_context(struct fs_conte fc->fs_private = ctx; fc->ops = &ext4_context_ops;
+ /* i_version is always enabled now */ + fc->sb_flags |= SB_I_VERSION; + return 0; }
@@ -5113,9 +5116,6 @@ static int __ext4_fill_super(struct fs_c sb->s_flags = (sb->s_flags & ~SB_POSIXACL) | (test_opt(sb, POSIX_ACL) ? SB_POSIXACL : 0);
- /* i_version is always enabled now */ - sb->s_flags |= SB_I_VERSION; - if (ext4_check_feature_compatibility(sb, es, silent)) goto failed_mount;