linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.16 140/272] ext4: dont complain about incorrect features when probing

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Message-Id: <20180528100252.805459949@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 12:02:53 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@...inera.com>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
        Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.16 140/272] ext4: dont complain about incorrect features when probing

4.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit 0d9366d67bcf066b028e57d09c9a86ce879bcc28 ]

If mount is auto-probing for filesystem type, it will try various
filesystems in order, with the MS_SILENT flag set.  We get
that flag as the silent arg to ext4_fill_super.

If we're probing (silent==1) then don't complain about feature
incompatibilities that are found if it looks like it's actually
a different valid extN type - failed probes should be silent
in this case.

If the on-disk features are unknown even to ext4, then complain.

Reported-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@...inera.com>
Tested-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@...inera.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3663,6 +3663,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "mounting ext2 file system "
 				 "using the ext4 subsystem");
 		else {
+			/*
+			 * If we're probing be silent, if this looks like
+			 * it's actually an ext[34] filesystem.
+			 */
+			if (silent && ext4_feature_set_ok(sb, sb_rdonly(sb)))
+				goto failed_mount;
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "couldn't mount as ext2 due "
 				 "to feature incompatibilities");
 			goto failed_mount;
@@ -3674,6 +3680,12 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "mounting ext3 file system "
 				 "using the ext4 subsystem");
 		else {
+			/*
+			 * If we're probing be silent, if this looks like
+			 * it's actually an ext4 filesystem.
+			 */
+			if (silent && ext4_feature_set_ok(sb, sb_rdonly(sb)))
+				goto failed_mount;
 			ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "couldn't mount as ext3 due "
 				 "to feature incompatibilities");
 			goto failed_mount;