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SubjectRe: [PATCH] btrfs: refuse to remount read-write with unsupported compat-ro features
On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 11:14:56AM +0000, Filipe Manana wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 2:42 AM Chung-Chiang Cheng <shepjeng@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 6:45 PM Filipe Manana <fdmanana@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Wasn't this already done by the following commit?
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=81d5d61454c365718655cfc87d8200c84e25d596
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > Wow. I did not notice this commit doing the same job by Qu. But I have
> > tested the latest linux-6.1 rc-7, and it's still able to mount a unsupported
> > comat-ro btrfs as read-write via remount.
> >
> > It's caused by the follow-up commit d7f67ac9a928 ("btrfs: relax
> > block-group-tree feature dependency checks"). This commit checks read-
> > only with the current superblock, which will always pass in the situation
> > remounting from read-only to read-write. It seems `btrfs_check_features()`
> > cannot cover this scenario.
> >
> > if (compat_ro_unsupp && !sb_rdonly(sb)) {
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Yep, that's a bug.
> btrfs_check_features() is called before the read only flag is updated
> in the super block.
>
> So the condition should be:
>
> if (compat_ro_unsupp && sb_rdonly(sb) && we_want_to_transition_to_rw)
>
> We need to pass the flags passed to btrfs_remount() to
> btrfs_check_features() for that "we_want_to_transition_to_rw" check.
>
> That seems to be what needs to be fixed.

Qu, can you please have a look, it's caused by commit
81d5d61454c365718655cfc87d8200c84e25d596 that's also in stable kernels
so this should be fixed quickly.

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