On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 6:49 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 05:49:19PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> [0] we have mandatory locks, too. Sigh. > > > > I'd love to remove that. Perhaps we could try persuading more of the > > distros to disable the CONFIG option first. > > Yes. The support is disabled in RHEL8. If it helps, it seems to be enabled on the just released debian stable: $ grep CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING /boot/config-5.10.0-8-amd64 CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING=y Also the new 5.13 kernel in experimental has it too: $ grep CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING /boot/config-5.13.0-trunk-amd64 CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING=y