vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only

Currently remouting superblock read-only is racy in a major way.

With the per mount read-only infrastructure it is now possible to
prevent most races, which this patch attempts.

Before starting the remount read-only, iterate through all mounts
belonging to the superblock and if none of them have any pending
writes, set sb->s_readonly_remount.  This indicates that remount is in
progress and no further write requests are allowed.  If the remount
succeeds set MS_RDONLY and reset s_readonly_remount.

If the remounting is unsuccessful just reset s_readonly_remount.
This can result in transient EROFS errors, despite the fact the
remount failed.  Unfortunately hodling off writes is difficult as
remount itself may touch the filesystem (e.g. through load_nls())
which would deadlock.

A later patch deals with delayed writes due to nlink going to zero.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 2523a40..9962c59 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ extern int finish_automount(struct vfsmount *, struct path *);
 
 extern void mnt_make_longterm(struct vfsmount *);
 extern void mnt_make_shortterm(struct vfsmount *);
+extern int sb_prepare_remount_readonly(struct super_block *);
 
 extern void __init mnt_init(void);