From d758a667f27b38d9ecc0715062307a8bce741aee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:32:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 06/10] tune2fs: prohibit toggling uninit_bg on live
filesystems
An internal customer followed an erroneous AskUbuntu article[1] to try to
change the UUID of a live ext4 filesystem. The article claims that you
can work around tune2fs' "cannot change UUID on live fs" error by
disabling uninit_bg, changing the UUID, and re-enabling the feature.
This led to metadata corruption because tune2fs' journal descriptor
rewrite races with regular filesystem writes. Therefore, prevent
administrators from turning on or off uninit_bg on a mounted fs.
[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/132079/how-do-i-change-uuid-of-a-disk-to-whatever-i-want/195839#459097
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
---
misc/tune2fs.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/misc/tune2fs.c b/misc/tune2fs.c
index 7d2d38d7..301cf388 100644
--- a/misc/tune2fs.c
+++ b/misc/tune2fs.c
@@ -1308,6 +1308,12 @@ mmp_error:
if (FEATURE_ON(E2P_FEATURE_RO_INCOMPAT,
EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM)) {
+ if (mount_flags & EXT2_MF_MOUNTED) {
+ fputs(_("Cannot enable uninit_bg on a mounted "
+ "filesystem!\n"), stderr);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
/* Do not enable uninit_bg when metadata_csum enabled */
if (ext2fs_has_feature_metadata_csum(fs->super))
ext2fs_clear_feature_gdt_csum(fs->super);
@@ -1317,6 +1323,12 @@ mmp_error:
if (FEATURE_OFF(E2P_FEATURE_RO_INCOMPAT,
EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM)) {
+ if (mount_flags & EXT2_MF_MOUNTED) {
+ fputs(_("Cannot disable uninit_bg on a mounted "
+ "filesystem!\n"), stderr);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
err = disable_uninit_bg(fs,
EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM);
if (err)
--
2.21.1