linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] exfat: call sync_filesystem for read-only remount

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Message-Id: <20200616053445.18125-1-hyc.lee@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:34:45 +0900
From:   Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>
To:     Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>,
        Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>
Cc:     Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@....com
Subject: [PATCH v2] exfat: call sync_filesystem for read-only remount

We need to commit dirty metadata and pages to disk
before remounting exfat as read-only.

This fixes a failure in xfstests generic/452

generic/452 does the following:
cp something <exfat>/
mount -o remount,ro <exfat>

the <exfat>/something is corrupted. because while
exfat is remounted as read-only, exfat doesn't
have a chance to commit metadata and
vfs invalidates page caches in a block device.

Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@...il.com>
---
Changes from v1:
- Does not check the return value of sync_filesystem to
  allow to change from "rw" to "ro" even when this function
  fails.
- Add the detailed explanation why generic/452 fails

 fs/exfat/super.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/exfat/super.c b/fs/exfat/super.c
index e650e65536f8..253a92460d52 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/super.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/super.c
@@ -693,10 +693,20 @@ static void exfat_free(struct fs_context *fc)
 	}
 }
 
+static int exfat_reconfigure(struct fs_context *fc)
+{
+	fc->sb_flags |= SB_NODIRATIME;
+
+	/* volume flag will be updated in exfat_sync_fs */
+	sync_filesystem(fc->root->d_sb);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static const struct fs_context_operations exfat_context_ops = {
 	.parse_param	= exfat_parse_param,
 	.get_tree	= exfat_get_tree,
 	.free		= exfat_free,
+	.reconfigure	= exfat_reconfigure,
 };
 
 static int exfat_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
-- 
2.17.1