fs: don't misleadingly warn during thaw operations

The block device may have been frozen before it was claimed by a
filesystem. Concurrently another process might try to mount that
frozen block device and has temporarily claimed the block device for
that purpose causing a concurrent fs_bdev_thaw() to end up here. The
mounter is already about to abort mounting because they still saw an
elevanted bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count so get_bdev_super() will return
NULL in that case.

For example, P1 calls dm_suspend() which calls into bdev_freeze() before
the block device has been claimed by the filesystem. This brings
bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count to 1 and no call into fs_bdev_freeze() is
required.

Now P2 tries to mount that frozen block device. It claims it and checks
bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count. As it's elevated it aborts mounting.

In the meantime P3 called dm_resume(). P3 sees that the block device is
already claimed by a filesystem and calls into fs_bdev_thaw().

P3 takes a passive reference and realizes that the filesystem isn't
ready yet. P3 puts itself to sleep to wait for the filesystem to become
ready.

P2 now puts the last active reference to the filesystem and marks it as
dying. P3 gets woken, sees that the filesystem is dying and
get_bdev_super() fails.

Fixes: 49ef883 ("bdev: implement freeze and thaw holder operations")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240611085210.GA1838544@mit.edu
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240613-lackmantel-einsehen-90f0d727358d@brauner
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Author: brauner

fs/super.c

@@ -1502,8 +1502,17 @@ static int fs_bdev_thaw(struct block_device *bdev)
 
 	lockdep_assert_held(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex);
 
+	/*
+	 * The block device may have been frozen before it was claimed by a
+	 * filesystem. Concurrently another process might try to mount that
+	 * frozen block device and has temporarily claimed the block device for
+	 * that purpose causing a concurrent fs_bdev_thaw() to end up here. The
+	 * mounter is already about to abort mounting because they still saw an
+	 * elevanted bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count so get_bdev_super() will return
+	 * NULL in that case.
+	 */
 	sb = get_bdev_super(bdev);
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!sb))
+	if (!sb)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (sb->s_op->thaw_super)