ext2: change the default behaviour on error
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:36:17 +0000 (01:36 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:41:00 +0000 (10:41 -0800)
ext2 file system was by default ignoring errors and continuing.  This is
not a good default as continuing on error could lead to file system
corruption.  Change the default to mark the file system readonly.  Debian
and ubuntu already does this as the default in their fstab.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ext2/super.c

index 6abaf75..0ff8913 100644 (file)
@@ -234,16 +234,16 @@ static int ext2_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct vfsmount *vfs)
            le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resgid) != EXT2_DEF_RESGID) {
                seq_printf(seq, ",resgid=%u", sbi->s_resgid);
        }
-       if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_CONT)) {
+       if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_RO)) {
                int def_errors = le16_to_cpu(es->s_errors);
 
                if (def_errors == EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC ||
-                   def_errors == EXT2_ERRORS_RO) {
-                       seq_puts(seq, ",errors=continue");
+                   def_errors == EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE) {
+                       seq_puts(seq, ",errors=remount-ro");
                }
        }
-       if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_RO))
-               seq_puts(seq, ",errors=remount-ro");
+       if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_CONT))
+               seq_puts(seq, ",errors=continue");
        if (test_opt(sb, ERRORS_PANIC))
                seq_puts(seq, ",errors=panic");
        if (test_opt(sb, NO_UID32))
@@ -820,10 +820,10 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
        
        if (le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_errors) == EXT2_ERRORS_PANIC)
                set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, ERRORS_PANIC);
-       else if (le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_errors) == EXT2_ERRORS_RO)
-               set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, ERRORS_RO);
-       else
+       else if (le16_to_cpu(sbi->s_es->s_errors) == EXT2_ERRORS_CONTINUE)
                set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, ERRORS_CONT);
+       else
+               set_opt(sbi->s_mount_opt, ERRORS_RO);
 
        sbi->s_resuid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resuid);
        sbi->s_resgid = le16_to_cpu(es->s_def_resgid);