On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 12:33:22PM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgold...@suse.com>
>
> The problem is with parallel mounting multiple subvolumes rw when the
> root filesystem is marked as read-only such as a boot sequence
> using systemd. Not all subvolumes will be mounted because some of
> them will return -EBUSY.
>
> Here is a sample execution time.
> Root filesystem is mounted read-only so s->s_flags are set to MS_RDONLY
> flags is the parameter passed and s_flags is the one recorded in sb.
> btrfs_mount is called via vfs_kern_mount().
>
> Mount Thread 1 Mount Thread 2
>
> btrfs_mount(flags & ~MS_RDONLY)
> check (flags ^ s_flags) & MS_RDONLY
> returns -EBUSY btrfs_mount(flags & ~MS_RDONLY)
> check (flags ^ s_flags) & MS_RDONLY
> returns -EBUSY
> btrfs_mount(flags | MS_RDONLY)
> btrfs_remount(flags & ~MS_RDONLY)
> s->s_flags &= ~MS_RDONLY
> btrfs_mount(flags | MS_RDONLY)
> check (flags ^ s_flags) & MS_RDONLY)
> returns -EBUSY
> mount FAILS
>
> The -EBUSY was originally introduced in:
> 4b82d6e ("Btrfs: Add mount into directory support")
> as a copy of (then) get_sb_dev().
>
> Later commit 0723a04 ("btrfs: allow mounting btrfs subvolumes
> with different ro/rw options") added the option of allowing
> subvolumes in rw/ro modes.
>
> This fix is instead of toggling the flags in remount, we set
> s_flags &= MS_RDONLY when we see a conflict in s_flags and passed parameter
> flags and let mount continue as it is. This will allow the first mount attempt
> to succeed, and we can get rid of the re-kern_mount() and remount sequence
> altogether.
Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com>
Thanks,
-liubo
>
> Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgold...@suse.com>
> ---
> fs/btrfs/super.c | 36 ++++++++++--------------------------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
> index e9ae93e..978b4a6 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
> @@ -67,8 +67,6 @@
> static const struct super_operations btrfs_super_ops;
> static struct file_system_type btrfs_fs_type;
>
> -static int btrfs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data);
> -
> const char *btrfs_decode_error(int errno)
> {
> char *errstr = "unknown";
> @@ -1379,28 +1377,6 @@ static struct dentry *mount_subvol(const char
> *subvol_name, u64 subvol_objectid,
> }
>
> mnt = vfs_kern_mount(&btrfs_fs_type, flags, device_name, newargs);
> - if (PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(mnt) == -EBUSY) {
> - if (flags & MS_RDONLY) {
> - mnt = vfs_kern_mount(&btrfs_fs_type, flags & ~MS_RDONLY,
> - device_name, newargs);
> - } else {
> - mnt = vfs_kern_mount(&btrfs_fs_type, flags | MS_RDONLY,
> - device_name, newargs);
> - if (IS_ERR(mnt)) {
> - root = ERR_CAST(mnt);
> - mnt = NULL;
> - goto out;
> - }
> -
> - down_write(&mnt->mnt_sb->s_umount);
> - ret = btrfs_remount(mnt->mnt_sb, &flags, NULL);
> - up_write(&mnt->mnt_sb->s_umount);
> - if (ret < 0) {
> - root = ERR_PTR(ret);
> - goto out;
> - }
> - }
> - }
> if (IS_ERR(mnt)) {
> root = ERR_CAST(mnt);
> mnt = NULL;
> @@ -1606,8 +1582,16 @@ static struct dentry *btrfs_mount(struct
> file_system_type *fs_type, int flags,
> if (s->s_root) {
> btrfs_close_devices(fs_devices);
> free_fs_info(fs_info);
> - if ((flags ^ s->s_flags) & MS_RDONLY)
> - error = -EBUSY;
> + /* If s_flags is MS_RDONLY and flags is rw (~MS_RDONLY)
> + * we need to reset s_flags so that sb can be writable
> + * since we can be called from mount_subvol().
> + * The vfsmount manages to preserve the ro/rw flags
> + * of the root/orignal mount.
> + * In case of vice-versa, s_flags is already does not
> + * have MS_RDONLY set, so don't bother.
> + */
> + if ((s->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && !(flags & MS_RDONLY))
> + s->s_flags &= ~MS_RDONLY;
> } else {
> snprintf(s->s_id, sizeof(s->s_id), "%pg", bdev);
> btrfs_sb(s)->bdev_holder = fs_type;
> --
> 2.10.2
>
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