From: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@suse.cz>

If mount flags don't have MS_RDONLY, iso9660 returns EACCES without actually
checking if it's an iso image.

This tricks mount_block_root() into retrying with MS_RDONLY.  This results
in a read-only root despite the "rw" boot parameter if the actual
filesystem was checked after iso9660.

I believe the behavior of iso9660 is okay, while that of mount_block_root()
is not.  It should rather try all types without MS_RDONLY and only then
retry with MS_RDONLY.

This change also makes the code more robust against the case when EACCES is
returned despite MS_RDONLY, which would've resulted in a lockup.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@suse.cz>
---
 init/do_mounts.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -395,8 +395,6 @@ void __init mount_block_root(char *name,
                        case 0:
                                goto out;
                        case -EACCES:
-                               flags |= MS_RDONLY;
-                               goto retry;
                        case -EINVAL:
                                continue;
                }
@@ -419,6 +417,10 @@ void __init mount_block_root(char *name,
 #endif
                panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
        }
+       if (!(flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
+               flags |= MS_RDONLY;
+               goto retry;
+       }
 
        printk("List of all partitions:\n");
        printk_all_partitions();
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