linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: clear mmp sequence number when remounting read-only

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Date:   Sun,  8 Jul 2018 00:32:03 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: clear mmp sequence number when remounting read-only

Previously, when an MMP-protected file system is remounted read-only,
the kmmpd thread would exit the next time it woke up (a few seconds
later), without resetting the MMP sequence number back to
EXT4_MMP_SEQ_CLEAN.

Fix this by explicitly killing the MMP thread when the file system is
remounted read-only.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
---
 fs/ext4/mmp.c   | 7 ++-----
 fs/ext4/super.c | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mmp.c b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
index 27b9a76a0dfa..638ad4743477 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mmp.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
@@ -186,11 +186,8 @@ static int kmmpd(void *data)
 			goto exit_thread;
 		}
 
-		if (sb_rdonly(sb)) {
-			ext4_warning(sb, "kmmpd being stopped since filesystem "
-				     "has been remounted as readonly.");
-			goto exit_thread;
-		}
+		if (sb_rdonly(sb))
+			break;
 
 		diff = jiffies - last_update_time;
 		if (diff < mmp_update_interval * HZ)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 90d0e113a174..38b5d2a22a63 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -5219,6 +5219,8 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 
 			if (sbi->s_journal)
 				ext4_mark_recovery_complete(sb, es);
+			if (sbi->s_mmp_tsk)
+				kthread_stop(sbi->s_mmp_tsk);
 		} else {
 			/* Make sure we can mount this feature set readwrite */
 			if (ext4_has_feature_readonly(sb) ||
-- 
2.18.0.rc0