Re: [PATCH V5] Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted

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"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Commit ed5cc702d311 ("block: Add config option to not allow writing to mounted
> devices") added a Kconfig option along with a kernel command-line tuning to
> control writes to mounted block devices, as a means to deal with fuzzers like
> Syzkaller, that provokes kernel crashes by directly writing on block devices
> bypassing the filesystem (so the FS has no awareness and cannot cope with that).
>
> The patch just missed adding such kernel command-line option to the kernel
> documentation, so let's fix that.
>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied, thanks.

jon




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