[PATCH 01/13] 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>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/super.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 3f56a26..14948d6 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -727,8 +727,13 @@ 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)
-			return retval;
+		if (retval) {
+			if (!force)
+				return retval;
+			/* If forced remount, go ahead despite any errors */
+			WARN(1, "forced remount of a %s fs returned %i\n",
+			     sb->s_type->name, retval);
+		}
 	}
 	sb->s_flags = (sb->s_flags & ~MS_RMT_MASK) | (flags & MS_RMT_MASK);
 
-- 
1.7.3.4

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