PROBLEM: Remounting write-protected floppy

Hi,

is this a bug or am I missing something? I'm
not at all a kernel hacker.

1. Remounting write-protected floppy

2. It is possible to remount a write-protected, read-only mounted floppy disk as read-writeable, and write and remove files on it. The result is weird, depends on what you're doing

3. floppy, mount, filesystem, VFS

4. Kernel: 2.2.19 and 2.2.18 (unpatched)
mount 2.10m (NFS patched, and unpatched originating SuSE 7.0)

5. Kernel warnings: (a lot)

   Apr 26 10:25:07 max kernel: floppy0: Drive is write protected
   Apr 26 10:25:07 max kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00\
   (floppy), sector 82

6. Procedure:
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Using an ext2-formatted, write-protected HD (1.44) floppy:

max:~ # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only max:~ # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2 -o remount,rw max:~ # ls -l /floppy
total 765

drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Apr 26 08:35 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root     root         4096 Jan 16 23:42 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       761016 Apr 26 08:35 bzImage
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        12288 Apr 26 08:33 lost+found
max:~ # echo empty > /floppy/bzImage
max:~ # ls -l /floppy
total 18
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         1024 Apr 26 08:35 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root     root         4096 Jan 16 23:42 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            6 Apr 26 10:57 bzImage
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        12288 Apr 26 08:33 lost+found

max:~ # cat /floppy/bzImage
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The last command sometimes writes "empty" instead of the old content of bzImage as above.
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7. Environment
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Linux max 2.2.18 #2 Sun Mar 4 13:56:26 CET 2001 i586 unknown

Kernel modules         2.3.11
Gnu C                  2.95.2
Binutils               2.9.5.0.24
Linux C Library        x   1 root     root    \
  4070534 Sep  5  2000 /lib/libc.so.6
Dynamic linker         ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.3
Procps                 2.0.6
Mount                  2.10m
Net-tools              1.56
Kbd                    0.99
Sh-utils               2.0
Modules Loaded         snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event\

snd-seq snd-card-cs4232 isapnp snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi\
snd-seq-device snd-cs4231 snd-mixer snd-pcm snd-opl3\
snd-hwdep snd-timer snd
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Regards,

Christian

P.S.: If you answer, please CC: me, I'm not on the list.

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