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| author | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2011-04-13 10:31:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2011-04-28 08:21:05 -0700 |
| commit | bd1ad0b2ef08f8c6e42bfd356d7666bca6e2bfcb (patch) | |
| tree | 89ef14a72a83f0924737531a1ce878de3b15f82c /fs | |
| parent | d8d3d0e28304d3ed22f33ec8d1cfab54e7946d79 (diff) | |
UBIFS: fix oops when R/O file-system is fsync'ed
commit 78530bf7f2559b317c04991b52217c1608d5a58d upstream.
This patch fixes severe UBIFS bug: UBIFS oopses when we 'fsync()' an
file on R/O-mounter file-system. We (the UBIFS authors) incorrectly
thought that VFS would not propagate 'fsync()' down to the file-system
if it is read-only, but this is not the case.
It is easy to exploit this bug using the following simple perl script:
use strict;
use File::Sync qw(fsync sync);
die "File path is not specified" if not defined $ARGV[0];
my $path = $ARGV[0];
open FILE, "<", "$path" or die "Cannot open $path: $!";
fsync(\*FILE) or die "cannot fsync $path: $!";
close FILE or die "Cannot close $path: $!";
Thanks to Reuben Dowle <Reuben.Dowle@navico.com> for reporting about this
issue.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Reuben Dowle <Reuben.Dowle@navico.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ubifs/file.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c index 12f445cee9f7..47f55ea9ddad 100644 --- a/fs/ubifs/file.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c @@ -1315,6 +1315,9 @@ int ubifs_fsync(struct file *file, int datasync) dbg_gen("syncing inode %lu", inode->i_ino); + if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) + return 0; + /* * VFS has already synchronized dirty pages for this inode. Synchronize * the inode unless this is a 'datasync()' call. |