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    fs: Protect reconfiguration of sb read-write from racing writes · c541dce8
    Jan Kara authored
    The reconfigure / remount code takes a lot of effort to protect
    filesystem's reconfiguration code from racing writes on remounting
    read-only. However during remounting read-only filesystem to read-write
    mode userspace writes can start immediately once we clear SB_RDONLY
    flag. This is inconvenient for example for ext4 because we need to do
    some writes to the filesystem (such as preparation of quota files)
    before we can take userspace writes so we are clearing SB_RDONLY flag
    before we are fully ready to accept userpace writes and syzbot has found
    a way to exploit this [1]. Also as far as I'm reading the code
    the filesystem remount code was protected from racing writes in the
    legacy mount path by the mount's MNT_READONLY flag so this is relatively
    new problem. It is actually fairly easy to protect remount read-write
    from racing writes using sb->s_readonly_remount flag so let's just do
    that instead of having to workaround these races in the filesystem code.
    
    [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000006a0df05f6667499@google.com/T/Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Message-Id: <20230615113848.8439-1-jack@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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