From: Christian Brauner <christian.brau...@ubuntu.com>

do_reconfigure_mnt() used to take the down_write(&sb->s_umount) lock
which seems unnecessary since we're not changing the superblock. We're
only checking whether it is already read-only. Setting other mount
attributes is protected by lock_mount_hash() afaict and not by s_umount.

The history of down_write(&sb->s_umount) lock being taken when setting
mount attributes dates back to the introduction of MNT_READONLY in [2].
This introduced the concept of having read-only mounts in contrast to
just having a read-only superblock. When it got introduced it was simply
plumbed into do_remount() which already took down_write(&sb->s_umount)
because it was only used to actually change the superblock before [2].
Afaict, it would've already been possible back then to only use
down_read(&sb->s_umount) for MS_BIND | MS_REMOUNT since actual mount
options were protected by the vfsmount lock already. But that would've
meant special casing the locking for MS_BIND | MS_REMOUNT in
do_remount() which people might not have considered worth it.
Then in [1] MS_BIND | MS_REMOUNT mount option changes were split out of
do_remount() into do_reconfigure_mnt() but the down_write(&sb->s_umount)
lock was simply copied over.
Now that we have this be a separate helper only take the
down_read(&sb->s_umount) lock since we're only interested in checking
whether the super block is currently read-only and blocking any writers
from changing it. Essentially, checking that the super block is
read-only has the advantage that we can avoid having to go into the
slowpath and through MNT_WRITE_HOLD and can simply set the read-only
flag on the mount in set_mount_attributes().

[1]: commit 43f5e655eff7 ("vfs: Separate changing mount flags full remount")
[2]: commit 2e4b7fcd9260 ("[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: honor mount writer counts 
at remount")

Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-32-christian.brau...@ubuntu.com
Cc: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brau...@ubuntu.com>

(cherry picked from commit e58ace1a0fa9d578f85f556b4b88c5fe9b871d08)
https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-144416
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomi...@virtuozzo.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 9e58a2ff16ea..c03e21575d08 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -2701,10 +2701,6 @@ static int change_mount_ro_state(struct mount *mnt, 
unsigned int mnt_flags)
        return 0;
 }
 
-/*
- * Update the user-settable attributes on a mount.  The caller must hold
- * sb->s_umount for writing.
- */
 static void set_mount_attributes(struct mount *mnt, unsigned int mnt_flags)
 {
        mnt_flags |= mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & ~MNT_USER_SETTABLE_MASK;
@@ -2732,13 +2728,17 @@ static int do_reconfigure_mnt(struct path *path, 
unsigned int mnt_flags)
        if (!can_change_locked_flags(mnt, mnt_flags))
                return -EPERM;
 
-       down_write(&sb->s_umount);
+       /*
+        * We're only checking whether the superblock is read-only not
+        * changing it, so only take down_read(&sb->s_umount).
+        */
+       down_read(&sb->s_umount);
        lock_mount_hash();
        ret = change_mount_ro_state(mnt, mnt_flags);
        if (ret == 0)
                set_mount_attributes(mnt, mnt_flags);
        unlock_mount_hash();
-       up_write(&sb->s_umount);
+       up_read(&sb->s_umount);
        return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.39.2

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