From 10975933da3d65f8833d4ce98dcc2ecc63a695d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:08:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] init: fix read-write root mount

If mount flags don't have MS_RDONLY, iso9660 returns EACCES without actually
checking if it's an iso image.

This tricks mount_block_root() into retrying with MS_RDONLY.  This results
in a read-only root despite the "rw" boot parameter if the actual
filesystem was checked after iso9660.

I believe the behavior of iso9660 is okay, while that of mount_block_root()
is not.  It should rather try all types without MS_RDONLY and only then
retry with MS_RDONLY.

This change also makes the code more robust against the case when EACCES is
returned despite MS_RDONLY, which would've resulted in a lockup.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 init/do_mounts.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.c b/init/do_mounts.c
index 9b3565c41502a..eb410083e8e07 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.c
+++ b/init/do_mounts.c
@@ -395,8 +395,6 @@ void __init mount_block_root(char *name, int flags)
 			case 0:
 				goto out;
 			case -EACCES:
-				flags |= MS_RDONLY;
-				goto retry;
 			case -EINVAL:
 				continue;
 		}
@@ -419,6 +417,10 @@ void __init mount_block_root(char *name, int flags)
 #endif
 		panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
 	}
+	if (!(flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
+		flags |= MS_RDONLY;
+		goto retry;
+	}
 
 	printk("List of all partitions:\n");
 	printk_all_partitions();
-- 
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