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Message-ID: <20121121213333.GF30250@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:33:33 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, axboe@...nel.dk, lucho@...kov.net,
	ericvh@...il.com, tytso@....edu, rminnich@...dia.gov,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, martin.petersen@...cle.com, neilb@...e.de,
	david@...morbit.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
	bharrosh@...asas.com, jlayton@...ba.org,
	v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ext3: Warn if mounting rw on a disk requiring
 stable page writes

On Wed 21-11-12 13:13:19, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 03:15:43AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Tue 20-11-12 18:00:56, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > 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 <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
> > > ---
> > >  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))
> >   Why this? ext3 should be fixed by your change to
> > filemap_page_mkwrite()... Or does testing show otherwise?
> 
> Yes, it's still broken even with this new set of changes.  Now that I think
> about it a little more, I recall that writeback mode was actually fine, so this
> is a little harsh.
> 
> Hm... looking at the ordered code a little more, it looks like
> ext3_ordered_write_end is calling journal_dirty_data_fn, which (I guess?) tries
> to write mapped buffers back through the journal?  Taking it out seems to fix
> ordered mode, though I have a suspicion that it might very well break ordered
> mode too.
  Oh, right. kjournald writing buffers directly (without setting
PageWriteback) will break things. So please, change warning to:

	/*
	 * In data=ordered mode, kjournald writes buffers without setting
	 * PageWriteback bit thus generic code does not properly wait for
	 * writeback of those buffers to finish.
	 */
	if (!read_only &&
	    test_opt(sb, DATA_FLAGS) == EXT3_MOUNT_ORDERED_DATA &&
	    queue_requires_stable_pages(bdev_get_queue(sb->s_bdev))) {
		ext3_msg(sb, KERN_ERR,
			"error: data=ordered mode does not support stable "
			"page writes required by the disk; forcing read-only "
			"mode. Upgrading to ext4 is recommended.");
		res = MS_RDONLY;
	}

then you need a similar check in ext3_remount() so that filesystem cannot
be remounted read-write.

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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