statvfs does not detect readonly status when set through sysrq-u

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Issue

Applications using statfs() system call, which gets filesystem statistics, fail to detect read-only status of the filesystems when filesystems are remounted read-only by running echo u > /proc/sysrq-trigger command.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • ext4 filesystem

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