[PATCH 26/27] fs: Refuse to freeze filesystem with open but unlinked files

[Jan Kara]

Filesystem with frozen but unlinked files cannot be forced into
a fully consistent state. Also handling of closing such files on frozen
filesystem is problematic since fput() can be called with mmap_sem held
and protection against frozen filesystem ranks above it.

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petrakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Massimo Morana <massimo.morana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/super.c |   26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 7b2c81c..2bd3632 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1485,16 +1485,22 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	smp_wmb();
 	sb_wait_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_FS);
 
+	/*
+	 * Check whether there are some open unlinked files (since all writers
+	 * are blocked, new ones cannot be created now so the check is
+	 * reliable). In that case filesystem cannot be forced into a
+	 * consistent state so we just bail out.
+	 */
+	if (atomic_long_read(&sb->s_remove_count)) {
+		ret = -EBUSY;
+		goto bail;
+	}
+
 	if (sb->s_op->freeze_fs) {
 		ret = sb->s_op->freeze_fs(sb);
 		if (ret) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR
-				"VFS:Filesystem freeze failed\n");
-			sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN;
-			smp_wmb();
-			wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen);
-			deactivate_locked_super(sb);
-			return ret;
+			printk(KERN_ERR "VFS: Filesystem freeze failed\n");
+			goto bail;
 		}
 	}
 	/*
@@ -1504,6 +1510,12 @@ int freeze_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE;
 	up_write(&sb->s_umount);
 	return 0;
+bail:
+	sb->s_writers.frozen = SB_UNFROZEN;
+	smp_wmb();
+	wake_up(&sb->s_writers.wait_unfrozen);
+	deactivate_locked_super(sb);
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(freeze_super);
 
-- 
1.7.1

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/