From: Christian Brauner Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:19:50 +0000 (+0100) Subject: namespace: only take read lock in do_reconfigure_mnt() X-Git-Tag: accepted/tizen/unified/20230118.172025~7765^2~9 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e58ace1a0fa9d578f85f556b4b88c5fe9b871d08;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git namespace: only take read lock in do_reconfigure_mnt() do_reconfigure_mnt() used to take the down_write(&sb->s_umount) lock which seems unnecessary since we're not changing the superblock. We're only checking whether it is already read-only. Setting other mount attributes is protected by lock_mount_hash() afaict and not by s_umount. The history of down_write(&sb->s_umount) lock being taken when setting mount attributes dates back to the introduction of MNT_READONLY in [2]. This introduced the concept of having read-only mounts in contrast to just having a read-only superblock. When it got introduced it was simply plumbed into do_remount() which already took down_write(&sb->s_umount) because it was only used to actually change the superblock before [2]. Afaict, it would've already been possible back then to only use down_read(&sb->s_umount) for MS_BIND | MS_REMOUNT since actual mount options were protected by the vfsmount lock already. But that would've meant special casing the locking for MS_BIND | MS_REMOUNT in do_remount() which people might not have considered worth it. Then in [1] MS_BIND | MS_REMOUNT mount option changes were split out of do_remount() into do_reconfigure_mnt() but the down_write(&sb->s_umount) lock was simply copied over. Now that we have this be a separate helper only take the down_read(&sb->s_umount) lock since we're only interested in checking whether the super block is currently read-only and blocking any writers from changing it. Essentially, checking that the super block is read-only has the advantage that we can avoid having to go into the slowpath and through MNT_WRITE_HOLD and can simply set the read-only flag on the mount in set_mount_attributes(). [1]: commit 43f5e655eff7 ("vfs: Separate changing mount flags full remount") [2]: commit 2e4b7fcd9260 ("[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: honor mount writer counts at remount") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-32-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: David Howells Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index 5fceb28..367f1c7 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -2527,10 +2527,6 @@ static int change_mount_ro_state(struct mount *mnt, unsigned int mnt_flags) return 0; } -/* - * Update the user-settable attributes on a mount. The caller must hold - * sb->s_umount for writing. - */ static void set_mount_attributes(struct mount *mnt, unsigned int mnt_flags) { mnt_flags |= mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & ~MNT_USER_SETTABLE_MASK; @@ -2580,13 +2576,17 @@ static int do_reconfigure_mnt(struct path *path, unsigned int mnt_flags) if (!can_change_locked_flags(mnt, mnt_flags)) return -EPERM; - down_write(&sb->s_umount); + /* + * We're only checking whether the superblock is read-only not + * changing it, so only take down_read(&sb->s_umount). + */ + down_read(&sb->s_umount); lock_mount_hash(); ret = change_mount_ro_state(mnt, mnt_flags); if (ret == 0) set_mount_attributes(mnt, mnt_flags); unlock_mount_hash(); - up_write(&sb->s_umount); + up_read(&sb->s_umount); mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry(path, &mnt->mnt);