[PATCH 4/4] ext3: Warn if mounting rw on a disk requiring stable page writes
From: Darrick J. Wong <hidden>
Date: 2012-11-21 02:00:56
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Subsystem:
filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers:
Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds
ext3 doesn't properly isolate pages from changes during writeback. Since the recommended fix is to use ext4, for now we'll just print a warning if the user tries to mount in write mode. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <redacted> --- fs/ext3/super.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index 5366393..5b3725d 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c@@ -1325,6 +1325,14 @@ static int ext3_setup_super(struct super_block *sb, struct ext3_super_block *es, "forcing read-only mode"); res = MS_RDONLY; } + if (!read_only && + queue_requires_stable_pages(bdev_get_queue(sb->s_bdev))) { + ext3_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, + "error: ext3 cannot safely write data to a disk " + "requiring stable pages writes; forcing read-only " + "mode. Upgrading to ext4 is recommended."); + res = MS_RDONLY; + } if (read_only) return res; if (!(sbi->s_mount_state & EXT3_VALID_FS))