Re: [PATCH 1/6] block: Add config option to not allow writing to mounted devices

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I see, thanks for sharing the details!

We'll set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED=n on syzbot once the series is
in linux-next.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 1:10 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Thu 19-10-23 11:16:55, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> > Thank you for the series!
> >
> > Have you already had a chance to push an updated version of it?
> > I tried to search LKML, but didn't find anything.
> >
> > Or did you decide to put it off until later?
>
> So there is preliminary series sitting in VFS tree that changes how block
> devices are open. There are some conflicts with btrfs tree and bcachefs
> merge that complicate all this (plus there was quite some churn in VFS
> itself due to changing rules how block devices are open) so I didn't push
> out the series that actually forbids opening of mounted block devices
> because that would cause a "merge from hell" issues. I plan to push out the
> remaining patches once the merge window closes and all the dependencies are
> hopefully in a stable state. Maybe I can push out the series earlier based
> on linux-next so that people can have a look at the current state.
>
>                                                                 Honza
> --
> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
> SUSE Labs, CR




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