Hi Christoph, hch@xxxxxx wrote on Tue, 23 May 2023 09:45:34 +0200: > early_lookup_bdev is supposed to only be called from the early boot > code, but mdtblock_early_get_bdev is called as a general fallback when > lookup_bdev fails, which is problematic because early_lookup_bdev > bypasses all normal path based permission checking, and might cause > problems with certain container environments renaming devices. > > Switch to only call early_lookup_bdev when dm is built-in and the system > state in not running yet. > > Note that this strictly speaking changes the kernel ABI as the PARTUUID= > and PARTLABEL= style syntax is now not available during a running > systems. They never were intended for that, but this breaks things > we'll have to figure out a way to make them available again. But if > avoidable in any way I'd rather avoid that. Sounds reasonable to me. Richard? Reviewed-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Miquèl -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
