2007/10/5, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:09:12PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > freeze_bdev() with the device which is mounted as read only
> > does not change sb->s_frozen from SB_UNFROZEN to SB_FREEZE_TRANS.
> >
> > Because of this behavior, xfs_freeze can break read-only XFS filesystem.
> >
> > Because xfs_thaw does nothing for the filesystem whose sb->s_frozen is
> > SB_UNFROZEN. So freezed readonly XFS filesystem will never be unfreezed.
> > Then we cannot do any unmount/remount operations for that filesystem.
> >
> > This patch updates sb->s_frozen when freeze_bdev() is called for read-only
> > mounted device, too.
>
> I think this fix is valid, but it might be a tad cleaner to just
> set s_frozen to SB_FREEZE_TRANS directly in a separate branch, ala:
It looks cleaner than mine. I'll resubmit it.
> struct super_block *freeze_bdev(struct block_device *bdev)
> {
> struct super_block *sb;
>
> down(&bdev->bd_mount_sem);
> sb = get_super(bdev);
> if (!sb)
> goto out;
>
> if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) {
> sb->s_frozen = SB_FREEZE_TRANS;
> smp_wmb();
> goto out;
> }
>
> sb->s_frozen = SB_FREEZE_WRITE;
> smp_wmb();
>
> __fsync_super(sb);
>
> sb->s_frozen = SB_FREEZE_TRANS
> smp_wmb();
>
> sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
>
> if (sb->s_op->write_super_lockfs)
> sb->s_op->write_super_lockfs(sb);
>
> out:
> sync_blockdev(bdev);
> return sb; /* thaw_bdev releases s->s_umount and bd_mount_sem */
> }
>
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