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

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On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 15:49 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Jeff Layton
> > Sent: 20 August 2021 14:57
> > 
> > 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");
> > +	}
> >  	return capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
> >  }
> 
> If that is called more than once you don't want the 'inline'.
> I doubt it matters is not inlined - hardly a hot path.
> 
> 	David
> 
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ACK. Of course. That really needs to not be inline. I'll fix that up in
my tree.

Thanks!
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>




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