1 ext4: support read-only images
3 From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
5 Add a rocompat feature, "readonly" to mark a FS image as read-only.
6 The feature prevents the kernel and e2fsprogs from changing the image;
7 the flag can be toggled by tune2fs.
9 Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
10 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
13 fs/ext4/super.c | 10 +++++++++-
14 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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21 diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
22 index 3950a2f..5cf937d 100644
25 @@ -1557,6 +1557,7 @@ static inline void ext4_clear_state_flags(struct ext4_inode_info *ei)
26 * GDT_CSUM bits are mutually exclusive.
28 #define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_METADATA_CSUM 0x0400
29 +#define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_READONLY 0x1000
31 #define EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_COMPRESSION 0x0001
32 #define EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE 0x0002
33 diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
34 index 74c5f53..c65dede 100644
37 @@ -2776,6 +2776,12 @@ static int ext4_feature_set_ok(struct super_block *sb, int readonly)
41 + if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_READONLY)) {
42 + ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "filesystem is read-only");
43 + sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
47 /* Check that feature set is OK for a read-write mount */
48 if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, ~EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_SUPP)) {
49 ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "couldn't mount RDWR because of "
50 @@ -4930,7 +4936,9 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
51 ext4_mark_recovery_complete(sb, es);
53 /* Make sure we can mount this feature set readwrite */
54 - if (!ext4_feature_set_ok(sb, 0)) {
55 + if (EXT4_HAS_RO_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb,
56 + EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_READONLY) ||
57 + !ext4_feature_set_ok(sb, 0)) {