Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fs: warn about impending deprecation of mandatory locks

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Fri Aug 20 2021 - 12:07:53 EST


On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 17:52 +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 20.08.21 15:57, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/namespace.c | 8 ++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> > index ab4174a3c802..ffab0bb1e649 100644
> > --- a/fs/namespace.c
> > +++ b/fs/namespace.c
> > @@ -1716,8 +1716,16 @@ static inline bool may_mount(void)
> > }
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
> > +static bool warned_mand;
> > static inline bool may_mandlock(void)
> > {
> > + if (!warned_mand) {
> > + warned_mand = true;
> > + pr_warn("======================================================\n");
> > + pr_warn("WARNING: the mand mount option is being deprecated and\n");
> > + pr_warn(" will be removed in v5.15!\n");
> > + pr_warn("======================================================\n");
> > + }
>
> Is there a reason not to use pr_warn_once() ?
>
>

No reason at all. I'll send out a v3 set in a bit with that change.

Thanks!
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>