[PATCH] ext3/4: don't do orphan processing on readonly devices
authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:40:13 +0000 (20:40 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:39:44 +0000 (08:39 -0800)
commita8f48a95619cbce8f85423480e7d0a1bf971a62b
treec33bf8406bb61945c4031b89cad533b041599567
parenta0e7688df1484fbf4d6d61c31f7d61a5d8cacf3c
[PATCH] ext3/4: don't do orphan processing on readonly devices

If you do something like:

  # touch foo
  # tail -f foo &
  # rm foo
  # <take snapshot>
  # <mount snapshot>

you'll panic, because ext3/4 tries to do orphan list processing on the
readonly snapshot device, and:

  kernel: journal commit I/O error
  kernel: Assertion failure in journal_flush_Rsmp_e2f189ce() at journal.c:1356: "!journal->j_checkpoint_transactions"
  kernel: Kernel panic: Fatal exception

for a truly readonly underlying device, it's reasonable and necessary
to just skip orphan list processing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/ext3/super.c
fs/ext4/super.c