[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "ext4: don't try to modify s_flags if the the file system is read-only" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ext4: don't try to modify s_flags if the the file system is read-only

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:16:04 -0500
Subject: ext4: don't try to modify s_flags if the the file system is read-only

commit 23301410972330c0ae9a8afc379ba2005e249cc6 upstream.

If an ext4 file system is created by some tool other than mke2fs
(perhaps by someone who has a pathalogical fear of the GPL) that
doesn't set one or the other of the EXT2_FLAGS_{UN}SIGNED_HASH flags,
and that file system is then mounted read-only, don't try to modify
the s_flags field.  Otherwise, if dm_verity is in use, the superblock
will change, causing an dm_verity failure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index b2ae1e8..44884b7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3548,16 +3548,22 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
 		sbi->s_hash_seed[i] = le32_to_cpu(es->s_hash_seed[i]);
 	sbi->s_def_hash_version = es->s_def_hash_version;
-	i = le32_to_cpu(es->s_flags);
-	if (i & EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH)
-		sbi->s_hash_unsigned = 3;
-	else if ((i & EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH) == 0) {
+	if (EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX)) {
+		i = le32_to_cpu(es->s_flags);
+		if (i & EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH)
+			sbi->s_hash_unsigned = 3;
+		else if ((i & EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH) == 0) {
 #ifdef __CHAR_UNSIGNED__
-		es->s_flags |= cpu_to_le32(EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH);
-		sbi->s_hash_unsigned = 3;
+			if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+				es->s_flags |=
+					cpu_to_le32(EXT2_FLAGS_UNSIGNED_HASH);
+			sbi->s_hash_unsigned = 3;
 #else
-		es->s_flags |= cpu_to_le32(EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH);
+			if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+				es->s_flags |=
+					cpu_to_le32(EXT2_FLAGS_SIGNED_HASH);
 #endif
+		}
 	}

 	/* Handle clustersize */
--
1.9.0