| From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | [PATCH 5.13 126/127] fs: warn about impending deprecation of mandatory locks | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:56:06 -0400 |
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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit fdd92b64d15bc4aec973caa25899afd782402e68 ]
We've had CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING since 2015 and a lot of distros have disabled it. Warn the stragglers that still use "-o mand" that we'll be dropping support for that mount option.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> --- fs/namespace.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index caad091fb204..03770bae9dd5 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1716,8 +1716,12 @@ static inline bool may_mount(void) } #ifdef CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING -static inline bool may_mandlock(void) +static bool may_mandlock(void) { + pr_warn_once("======================================================\n" + "WARNING: the mand mount option is being deprecated and\n" + " will be removed in v5.15!\n" + "======================================================\n"); return capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN); } #else -- 2.30.2
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