linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ovl: Prevent rw remount when it should be ro mount

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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2015 14:50:15 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Seunghun Lee <waydi1@...il.com>
Cc:	hujianyang <hujianyang@...wei.com>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
	richard.weinberger@...il.com,
	Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: Prevent rw remount when it should be ro mount

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Seunghun Lee <waydi1@...il.com> wrote:
>> On 2015/1/6 22:02, Seunghun Lee wrote:
>>> After patch:
>>> root@...ux86:~# mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=lower:lower2 merged
>>> mount: warning: merged seems to be mounted read-only.
>>> root@...ux86:~# mount | grep overlay
>>> overlay on /home/root/merged type overlay (ro,relatime,lowerdir=lower:lower2)
>>> root@...ux86:~# mount -o remount,rw merged
>>> mount: warning: /home/root/merged seems to be mounted read-only.
>>> root@...ux86:~# mount | grep overlay
>>> overlay on /home/root/merged type overlay (ro,relatime,lowerdir=lower:lower2)
>>> root@...ux86:~# echo hi > merged/hi
>>> -sh: merged/hi: Read-only file system
>>> root@...ux86:~#
>>>
>> If users want a rw mount, can we give them a ro mount? I think it's
>> wrong, .remount_fs should refuse this request.

Yeah.  Applied fixed patch.

Thanks,
Mikos
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