[RFC] [PATCH] vfs: remount all file-systems R/O on emergency remount.

[Artem Bityutskiy]

From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently the emergency remount (triggered by Sysrq-u) re-mounting only
those file-systems R/O, which have an associated block device (sb->s_bdev).
This does not work for file-systems like UBIFS and JFFS2 which work on top
of MTD devices (character devices) and always have sb->s_bdev = NULL.

This also does not work for tmpfs.

Most probably the intention was to avoid re-mounting R/O file-systems like
procfs, sysfs, cgroup, and debugfs. However, I do not really see why not
to remount them R/O as well in case of emergency.

This patch removes the 'sb->s_bdev != NULL' check from
'do_emergency_remount()', so _all_ file-systems will be re-mounted R/O.

Tested in Fedora - all file-systems (ext4, ubifs, procfs, sysfs, cgroup, and
debugfs) become R/O on Sysrq-u with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/super.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 0902cfa..95cf173 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ static void do_emergency_remount(struct work_struct *work)
 		sb->s_count++;
 		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
 		down_write(&sb->s_umount);
-		if (sb->s_root && sb->s_bdev && (sb->s_flags & MS_BORN) &&
+		if (sb->s_root && (sb->s_flags & MS_BORN) &&
 		    !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
 			/*
 			 * What lock protects sb->s_flags??
-- 
1.7.10.4

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