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Commit 273108fa authored by Lukas Czerner's avatar Lukas Czerner Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: handle read only external journal device



Ext4 uses blkdev_get_by_dev() to get the block_device for journal device
which does check to see if the read-only block device was opened
read-only.

As a result ext4 will hapily proceed mounting the file system with
external journal on read-only device. This is bad as we would not be
able to use the journal leading to errors later on.

Instead of simply failing to mount file system in this case, treat it in
a similar way we treat internal journal on read-only device. Allow to
mount with -o noload in read-only mode.

This can be reproduced easily like this:

mke2fs -F -O journal_dev $JOURNAL_DEV 100M
mkfs.$FSTYPE -F -J device=$JOURNAL_DEV $FS_DEV
blockdev --setro $JOURNAL_DEV
mount $FS_DEV $MNT
touch $MNT/file
umount $MNT

leading to error like this

[ 1307.318713] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1307.323362] generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device dm-2 (partno 0)
[ 1307.331741] WARNING: CPU: 36 PID: 3224 at block/blk-core.c:855 generic_make_request_checks+0x2c3/0x580
[ 1307.341041] Modules linked in: ext4 mbcache jbd2 rfkill intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common isst_if_commd
[ 1307.419445] CPU: 36 PID: 3224 Comm: jbd2/dm-2 Tainted: G        W I       5.8.0-rc5 #2
[ 1307.427359] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/01KPX8, BIOS 2.3.10 08/15/2019
[ 1307.434932] RIP: 0010:generic_make_request_checks+0x2c3/0x580
[ 1307.440676] Code: 94 03 00 00 48 89 df 48 8d 74 24 08 c6 05 cf 2b 18 01 01 e8 7f a4 ff ff 48 c7 c7 50e
[ 1307.459420] RSP: 0018:ffffc0d70eb5fb48 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 1307.464646] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9b33b2978300 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 1307.471780] RDX: ffff9b33e12a81e0 RSI: ffff9b33e1298000 RDI: ffff9b33e1298000
[ 1307.478913] RBP: ffff9b7b9679e0c0 R08: 0000000000000837 R09: 0000000000000024
[ 1307.486044] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffc0d70eb5f9f0 R12: 0000000000000400
[ 1307.493177] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 1307.500308] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9b33e1280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1307.508396] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1307.514142] CR2: 000055eaf4109000 CR3: 0000003dee40a006 CR4: 00000000007606e0
[ 1307.521273] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 1307.528407] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 1307.535538] PKRU: 55555554
[ 1307.538250] Call Trace:
[ 1307.540708]  generic_make_request+0x30/0x340
[ 1307.544985]  submit_bio+0x43/0x190
[ 1307.548393]  ? bio_add_page+0x62/0x90
[ 1307.552068]  submit_bh_wbc+0x16a/0x190
[ 1307.555833]  jbd2_write_superblock+0xec/0x200 [jbd2]
[ 1307.560803]  jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail+0x65/0xc0 [jbd2]
[ 1307.566557]  jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x2ae/0x1860 [jbd2]
[ 1307.572566]  ? check_preempt_curr+0x7a/0x90
[ 1307.576756]  ? update_curr+0xe1/0x1d0
[ 1307.580421]  ? account_entity_dequeue+0x7b/0xb0
[ 1307.584955]  ? newidle_balance+0x231/0x3d0
[ 1307.589056]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x42/0x70
[ 1307.592986]  ? __switch_to_asm+0x36/0x70
[ 1307.596918]  ? lock_timer_base+0x67/0x80
[ 1307.600851]  kjournald2+0xbd/0x270 [jbd2]
[ 1307.604873]  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
[ 1307.608460]  ? commit_timeout+0x10/0x10 [jbd2]
[ 1307.612915]  kthread+0x114/0x130
[ 1307.616152]  ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[ 1307.619816]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 1307.623400] ---[ end trace 27490236265b1630 ]---

Signed-off-by: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200717090605.2612-1-lczerner@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 3cb77bd2
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