6.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com
commit cda7163d4e3d99db93aa38f0e825b8433c7a8452 upstream.
[BUG] With util-linux 2.40.2, the 'mount' utility is already utilizing the new mount API. e.g:
# strace mount -o subvol=subv1,ro /dev/test/scratch1 /mnt/test/ ... fsconfig(3, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "source", "/dev/mapper/test-scratch1", 0) = 0 fsconfig(3, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "subvol", "subv1", 0) = 0 fsconfig(3, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "ro", NULL, 0) = 0 fsconfig(3, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0) = 0 fsmount(3, FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC, 0) = 4 mount_setattr(4, "", AT_EMPTY_PATH, {attr_set=MOUNT_ATTR_RDONLY, attr_clr=0, propagation=0 /* MS_??? */, userns_fd=0}, 32) = 0 move_mount(4, "", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/test", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH) = 0
But this leads to a new problem, that per-subvolume RO/RW mount no longer works, if the initial mount is RO:
# mount -o subvol=subv1,ro /dev/test/scratch1 /mnt/test # mount -o rw,subvol=subv2 /dev/test/scratch1 /mnt/scratch # mount | grep mnt /dev/mapper/test-scratch1 on /mnt/test type btrfs (ro,relatime,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=256,subvol=/subv1) /dev/mapper/test-scratch1 on /mnt/scratch type btrfs (ro,relatime,discard=async,space_cache=v2,subvolid=257,subvol=/subv2) # touch /mnt/scratch/foobar touch: cannot touch '/mnt/scratch/foobar': Read-only file system
This is a common use cases on distros.
[CAUSE] We have a workaround for remount to handle the RO->RW change, but if the mount is using the new mount API, we do not do that, and rely on the mount tool NOT to set the ro flag.
But that's not how the mount tool is doing for the new API:
fsconfig(3, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "source", "/dev/mapper/test-scratch1", 0) = 0 fsconfig(3, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "subvol", "subv1", 0) = 0 fsconfig(3, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "ro", NULL, 0) = 0 <<<< Setting RO flag for super block fsconfig(3, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0) = 0 fsmount(3, FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC, 0) = 4 mount_setattr(4, "", AT_EMPTY_PATH, {attr_set=MOUNT_ATTR_RDONLY, attr_clr=0, propagation=0 /* MS_??? */, userns_fd=0}, 32) = 0 move_mount(4, "", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/test", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH) = 0
This means we will set the super block RO at the first mount.
Later RW mount will not try to reconfigure the fs to RW because the mount tool is already using the new API.
This totally breaks the per-subvolume RO/RW mount behavior.
[FIX] Do not skip the reconfiguration even if using the new API. The old comments are just expecting any mount tool to properly skip the RO flag set even if we specify "ro", which is not the reality.
Update the comments regarding the backward compatibility on the kernel level so it works with old and new mount utilities.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.8+ Fixes: f044b318675f ("btrfs: handle the ro->rw transition for mounting different subvolumes") Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo wqu@suse.com Reviewed-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/btrfs/super.c | 25 +++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c @@ -1979,25 +1979,10 @@ error: * fsconfig(FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "ro"). This option is seen by the filesystem * in fc->sb_flags. * - * This disambiguation has rather positive consequences. Mounting a subvolume - * ro will not also turn the superblock ro. Only the mount for the subvolume - * will become ro. - * - * So, if the superblock creation request comes from the new mount API the - * caller must have explicitly done: - * - * fsconfig(FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "ro") - * fsmount/mount_setattr(MOUNT_ATTR_RDONLY) - * - * IOW, at some point the caller must have explicitly turned the whole - * superblock ro and we shouldn't just undo it like we did for the old mount - * API. In any case, it lets us avoid the hack in the new mount API. - * - * Consequently, the remounting hack must only be used for requests originating - * from the old mount API and should be marked for full deprecation so it can be - * turned off in a couple of years. - * - * The new mount API has no reason to support this hack. + * But, currently the util-linux mount command already utilizes the new mount + * API and is still setting fsconfig(FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "ro") no matter if it's + * btrfs or not, setting the whole super block RO. To make per-subvolume mounting + * work with different options work we need to keep backward compatibility. */ static struct vfsmount *btrfs_reconfigure_for_mount(struct fs_context *fc) { @@ -2019,7 +2004,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *btrfs_reconfigur if (IS_ERR(mnt)) return mnt;
- if (!fc->oldapi || !ro2rw) + if (!ro2rw) return mnt;
/* We need to convert to rw, call reconfigure. */