On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 11:48 -0500, Eric W. Biederman 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. > > Does anyone know the appropriate people to talk to encourage other > distro's to encourage them to disable the CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING? > > Either that or we can wait until the code bit-rots, but distro's > disabling and removing a feature on their own is the more responsible > path. > > Given how many hoops need to be jumped through to use mandatory file > locking once it is enabled, and the fact it has never worked in > containers makes me suspect there are no more users. > I'm all for ripping it out too. It's an insane interface anyway. I've not heard a single complaint about this being turned off in fedora/rhel or any other distro that has this disabled. Cheers, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
