[PATCH 1/4] vfs: ignore error on forced remount

[Miklos Szeredi]

From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>

On emergency remount we want to force MS_RDONLY on the super block
even if ->remount_fs() failed for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/super.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 3f56a26..5398975 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -727,7 +727,8 @@ int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags, void *data, int force)
 
 	if (sb->s_op->remount_fs) {
 		retval = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, data);
-		if (retval)
+		/* If forced remount, go ahead despite any errors */
+		if (retval && !force)
 			return retval;
 	}
 	sb->s_flags = (sb->s_flags & ~MS_RMT_MASK) | (flags & MS_RMT_MASK);
-- 
1.7.3.4

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