From d0a58e833931234c44e515b5b8bede32bd4e6eed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Sandeen Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 07:05:41 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] xfs: disallow rw remount on fs with unknown ro-compat features Today, a kernel which refuses to mount a filesystem read-write due to unknown ro-compat features can still transition to read-write via the remount path. The old kernel is most likely none the wiser, because it's unaware of the new feature, and isn't using it. However, writing to the filesystem may well corrupt metadata related to that new feature, and moving to a newer kernel which understand the feature will have problems. Right now the only ro-compat feature we have is the free inode btree, which showed up in v3.16. It would be good to push this back to all the active stable kernels, I think, so that if anyone is using newer mkfs (which enables the finobt feature) with older kernel releases, they'll be protected. Cc: # 3.10.x- Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner --- fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c index d760934..ca058a1 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c @@ -1276,6 +1276,16 @@ xfs_fs_remount( return -EINVAL; } + if (XFS_SB_VERSION_NUM(sbp) == XFS_SB_VERSION_5 && + xfs_sb_has_ro_compat_feature(sbp, + XFS_SB_FEAT_RO_COMPAT_UNKNOWN)) { + xfs_warn(mp, +"ro->rw transition prohibited on unknown (0x%x) ro-compat filesystem", + (sbp->sb_features_ro_compat & + XFS_SB_FEAT_RO_COMPAT_UNKNOWN)); + return -EINVAL; + } + mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY; /* -- 2.7.4