If you do something like:
  # touch foo
  # tail -f foo &
  # rm foo
  # <take snapshot>
  # <mount snapshot>
you'll panic, because ext3/4 tries to do orphan list processing on the
readonly snapshot device, and:
  kernel: journal commit I/O error
  kernel: Assertion failure in journal_flush_Rsmp_e2f189ce() at journal.c:1356: "!journal->j_checkpoint_transactions"
  kernel: Kernel panic: Fatal exception
for a truly readonly underlying device, it's reasonable and necessary
to just skip orphan list processing.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
                return;
        }
 
+       if (bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev)) {
+               printk(KERN_ERR "EXT3-fs: write access "
+                       "unavailable, skipping orphan cleanup.\n");
+               return;
+       }
+
        if (EXT3_SB(sb)->s_mount_state & EXT3_ERROR_FS) {
                if (es->s_last_orphan)
                        jbd_debug(1, "Errors on filesystem, "
 
                return;
        }
 
+       if (bdev_read_only(sb->s_bdev)) {
+               printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: write access "
+                       "unavailable, skipping orphan cleanup.\n");
+               return;
+       }
+
        if (EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_state & EXT4_ERROR_FS) {
                if (es->s_last_orphan)
                        jbd_debug(1, "Errors on filesystem, "