[PATCH v2 23/35] ubifs: set/clear MS_RDONLY properly in ubifs_remount

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 15:12 +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> On 08/24/2015 03:02 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 09:29 +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> > > On 08/10/2015 10:46 AM, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> > > > On 08/09/2015 05:17 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > > > > Am 30.07.2015 um 07:48 schrieb Dongsheng Yang:
> > > > > > We need to set or clear MS_RDONLY in remounting.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Care to explain why?
> > > > > Does the quota subsystem need that information?
> > > > > If so, where?
> > > > 
> > > > Ha, yes, you are right.
> > > > 
> > > > When we remount to rw from ro, we need to call dquot_resume.
> > > > And dquot_resume will call vfs_load_quota_inode() which
> > > > will check the MS_RDONLY. If it's ro mode, will return
> > > > an -EROFS.
> > > > 
> > > > And I know that we are using ->ro_mount in ubifs
> > > > to store the mounted mode. So we don't care about
> > > > the MS_RDONLY in ubifs. But why not to tell vfs we are in
> > > > ro or rw? Does it cause any problem?
> > > 
> > > Hi Artem,
> > > 	I found there is a commit 2ef13294d to introduce
> > > ro_mount to ubifs. Yes, I see the reason to use ro_mount
> > > rather than MS_RDONLY in ubifs. But why we do not set
> > > MS_RDONLY to tell vfs it's in rdonly or not? Current
> > > quota depends on it. Does this patch cause some problem?
> > 
> > MS_RDONLY is set at mount time, then it can be changed when we re
> > -mount, and then UBIFS can change it when there was a critical
> > error,
> > to ask VFS to stop writing more data to the file-system. See
> > 'ubifs_ro_mode()'.
> > 
> > The custom ro_mount is the same as MS_RDONLY, but it does not
> > change in
> > 'ubifs_ro_mode()'. It preserves the last mount state before the
> > error
> > happened - was it R/O or R/W.
> > 
> > Why is this needed?
> > 
> > UBIFS allocate different amount of resources depending on whether
> > we
> > are R/O or R/W. We use less memory in R/O mode, for example.
> > 
> > At unmount time, we need to know whether we allocated the "RW"
> > amount
> > of resources or the "RO" amount of resources.
> > 
> > We cannot use the MS_RDONLY flag to detect that, because it is
> > changed
> > in 'ubifs_ro_mode()' unconditionally, so we lose the information.
> > Therefore we use the custom ro_mount flag - it tells us how we were
> > mounted, so we know how much resources to free.
> 
> Great explanation!!! This makes it much more clear to me.
> 
> But about:
>  > MS_RDONLY is set at mount time, then it can be changed when we re
> 
> Currently, ubifs did not set it at mount time and ubifs did not
> change
> it in re-mounting. So vfs don't know the R/O or R/W mode of ubifs.

Well, sounds like a bug. Either we missed that, or VFS used to set it,
and now does not. In either case, IIUC, the MS_RDONLY flag should be
set on remount and reflect the mount state. Please, verify /proc/mounts
after RO<->RW remounts - we must make sure mount options are correct
there. You can cook a patch and send it. Do not forget to add the
stable tag then.

Artem.