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

[David Hildenbrand]

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() ?


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb