Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] fs: remove support for mandatory locking

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Fri Aug 20 2021 - 10:09:10 EST


On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 09:57:05AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> The first patch in this series adds a new warning that should pop on
> kernels have mandatory locking enabled when someone mounts a filesystem
> with -o mand. The second patch removes support for mandatory locking
> altogether.
>
> What I think we probably want to do is apply the first to v5.14 before
> it ships and allow the new warning to trickle out into stable kernels.
> Then we can merge the second patch in v5.15 to go ahead and remove it.
>
> Sound like a plan?

Sounds good to me.--b.

>
> Jeff Layton (2):
> fs: warn about impending deprecation of mandatory locks
> fs: remove mandatory file locking support
>
> .../filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst | 188 ------------------
> fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 12 --
> fs/Kconfig | 10 -
> fs/afs/flock.c | 4 -
> fs/ceph/locks.c | 3 -
> fs/gfs2/file.c | 3 -
> fs/locks.c | 116 +----------
> fs/namei.c | 4 +-
> fs/namespace.c | 31 +--
> fs/nfs/file.c | 4 -
> fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 13 --
> fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 15 --
> fs/ocfs2/locks.c | 4 -
> fs/open.c | 8 +-
> fs/read_write.c | 7 -
> fs/remap_range.c | 10 -
> include/linux/fs.h | 84 --------
> mm/mmap.c | 6 -
> mm/nommu.c | 3 -
> 19 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 505 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.rst
>
> --
> 2.31.1