ext4: don't set SB_RDONLY after filesystem errors
[ Upstream commit d3476f3dad4ad68ae5f6b008ea6591d1520da5d8 ]
When the filesystem is mounted with errors=remount-ro, we were setting
SB_RDONLY flag to stop all filesystem modifications. We knew this misses
proper locking (sb->s_umount) and does not go through proper filesystem
remount procedure but it has been the way this worked since early ext2
days and it was good enough for catastrophic situation damage
mitigation. Recently, syzbot has found a way (see link) to trigger
warnings in filesystem freezing because the code got confused by
SB_RDONLY changing under its hands. Since these days we set
EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN on the superblock which is enough to stop all
filesystem modifications, modifying SB_RDONLY shouldn't be needed. So
stop doing that.
BUG=b/383720392
TEST=presubmit
RELEASE_NOTE=Fixed CVE-2024-50191 in the Linux kernel.
cos-patch: security-moderate
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000b90a8e061e21d12f@google.com
Reported-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Change-Id: Id9945f7bfb5e45de91971ca2e915270b60d96dbc
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240805201241.27286-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kernel CVE Triage Automation <cloud-image-kernel-cve-triage-automation@prod.google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://cos-review.googlesource.com/c/third_party/kernel/+/88599
Tested-by: Cusky Presubmit Bot <presubmit@cos-infra-prod.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Berry <kpberry@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Anil Altinay <aaltinay@google.com>
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