Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:10:17 +0000 (UTC) From: Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/msdosfs msdosfs_vfsops.c Message-ID: <200707230710.l6N7AHd8008351@repoman.freebsd.org>
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bde 2007-07-23 07:10:17 UTC
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Modified files:
sys/fs/msdosfs msdosfs_vfsops.c
Log:
Make using msdosfs as the root file system sort of work:
o Initialize ownerships and permissions. They were garbage (0) for
root mounts since vfs_mountroot_try() doesn't ask for them to be set
and msdosfs's old incomplete code to set them was removed. The
garbage happened to give the correct ownerships root:wheel, but it
gave permissions 000 so init could not be execed. Use the macros
for root: wheel and 0755. (The removed code gave 0:0 and 0777. 0755
is more normal and secure, thought wrong for /tmp.)
o Check the readonly flag for initial (non-MNT_UPDATE) mounts in the
correct place, as in ffs. For root mounts, it is only passed in
mp->mnt_flags, since vfs_mountroot_try() only passes it as a flag
and nothing translates the flag to the "ro" option string. msdosfs
only looked for it in the string, so it gave a rw mount for root
mounts without even clearing the flag in mp->mnt_flags, so the final
state was inconsistent. Checking the flag only in mp->mnt_flags
works for initial userland mounts too. The MNT_UPDATE case is
messier.
The main point that should work but doesn't is fsck of msdosfs root
while it is mounted ro. This needs mainly MNT_RELOAD support to work.
It should be possible to run fsck -p and succeed provided the fs is
consistent, not just for msdosfs, but this fails because fsck -p always
tries to open the device rw. The hack that allows open for writing
in ffs is not implemented in msdosfs, since without MNT_RELOAD support
writing could only be harmful. So fsck must be turned off to use
msdosfs as root. This is quite dangerous, since msdosfs is still missing
actually using its fs-dirty flag internally, so it is happy to mount
dirty fileystems rw.
Unrelated changes:
- Fix missing error handling for MNT_UPDATE from rw to ro.
- Catch up with renaming msdos to msdosfs in a string.
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Revision Changes Path
1.167 +15 -3 src/sys/fs/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c
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