This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vboxsf: explicitly deny setlease attempts
to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
vboxsf-explicitly-deny-setlease-attempts.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5b5a06ed01c5416a4df2c6cef8a547c0c682d5c9
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Mar 19 12:32:04 2024 -0400
vboxsf: explicitly deny setlease attempts
[ Upstream commit 1ece2c43b88660ddbdf8ecb772e9c41ed9cda3dd ]
vboxsf does not break leases on its own, so it can't properly handle the
case where the hypervisor changes the data. Don't allow file leases on
vboxsf.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319-setlease-v1-1-5997d67e04b3@xxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/vboxsf/file.c b/fs/vboxsf/file.c
index 2307f8037efc3..118dedef8ebe8 100644
--- a/fs/vboxsf/file.c
+++ b/fs/vboxsf/file.c
@@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ const struct file_operations vboxsf_reg_fops = {
.release = vboxsf_file_release,
.fsync = noop_fsync,
.splice_read = filemap_splice_read,
+ .setlease = simple_nosetlease,
};
const struct inode_operations vboxsf_reg_iops = {
