Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] kernfs: add a WARN_ON_ONCE if ->close is set

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On 2024-08-08 23:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c
>> index 8502ef68459b..72cc51dcf870 100644
>> --- a/fs/kernfs/file.c
>> +++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c
>> @@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ static int kernfs_fop_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>>        * It is not possible to successfully wrap close.
>>        * So error if someone is trying to use close.
>>        */
>> -     if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->close)
>> +     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->close))
> 
> So you just rebooted a machine that hits this, loosing data everywhere.
> Not nice :(

Well, apologies for that, but there's no way to know what every single machine
out there is doing...

However if this machine is using ->close when that's clearly marked as
unsupported then shouldn't we fix that?




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