From 2ef6c32a914b85217b44a0a2418e830e520b085e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:18:51 -0400 Subject: ext4: avoid updating the superblock on a r/o mount if not needed This was noticed by a user who noticied that the mtime of a file backing a loopback device was getting bumped when the loopback device is mounted read/only. Note: This doesn't show up when doing a loopback mount of a file directly, via "mount -o ro /tmp/foo.img /mnt", since the loop device is set read-only when mount automatically creates loop device. However, this is noticeable for a LUKS loop device like this: % cryptsetup luksOpen /tmp/foo.img test % mount -o ro /dev/loop0 /mnt ; umount /mnt or, if LUKS is not in use, if the user manually creates the loop device like this: % losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/foo.img % mount -o ro /dev/loop0 /mnt ; umount /mnt The modified mtime causes rsync to do a rolling checksum scan of the file on the local and remote side, incrementally increasing the time to rsync the not-modified-but-touched image file. Fixes: eee00237fa5e ("ext4: commit super block if fs record error when journal record without error") Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZIauBR7YiV3rVAHL@glitch Reported-by: Sean Greenslade Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/ext4/super.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/super.c') diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index b3819e70093e..c638b0db3b2b 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -5997,19 +5997,27 @@ static int ext4_load_journal(struct super_block *sb, err = jbd2_journal_wipe(journal, !really_read_only); if (!err) { char *save = kmalloc(EXT4_S_ERR_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); + __le16 orig_state; + bool changed = false; if (save) memcpy(save, ((char *) es) + EXT4_S_ERR_START, EXT4_S_ERR_LEN); err = jbd2_journal_load(journal); - if (save) + if (save && memcmp(((char *) es) + EXT4_S_ERR_START, + save, EXT4_S_ERR_LEN)) { memcpy(((char *) es) + EXT4_S_ERR_START, save, EXT4_S_ERR_LEN); + changed = true; + } kfree(save); + orig_state = es->s_state; es->s_state |= cpu_to_le16(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_state & EXT4_ERROR_FS); + if (orig_state != es->s_state) + changed = true; /* Write out restored error information to the superblock */ - if (!bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev)) { + if (changed && !really_read_only) { int err2; err2 = ext4_commit_super(sb); err = err ? : err2; -- cgit v1.2.3