Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6 v2] block: Add config option to not allow writing to mounted devices

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On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 02:56:48PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> This is second version of the patches to add config option to not allow writing
> to mounted block devices. For motivation why this is interesting see patch 1/6.
> I've been testing the patches more extensively this time and I've found couple
> of things that get broken by disallowing writes to mounted block devices:
> 1) Bind mounts get broken because get_tree_bdev() / mount_bdev() first try to
>    claim the bdev before searching whether it is already mounted. Patch 6
>    reworks the mount code to avoid this problem.
> 2) btrfs mounting is likely having the same problem as 1). It should be fixable

It likely would. Note that I've got a series to port btrfs to the new
mount api that I sent out which changes btrfs mounting quite
significantly.



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