The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 630785bfbe12c3ee3ebccd8b530a98d632b7e39d # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025102646-groggy-overbid-913f@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 630785bfbe12c3ee3ebccd8b530a98d632b7e39d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" djwong@kernel.org Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:30:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] xfs: always warn about deprecated mount options
The deprecation of the 'attr2' mount option in 6.18 wasn't entirely successful because nobody noticed that the kernel never printed a warning about attr2 being set in fstab if the only xfs filesystem is the root fs; the initramfs mounts the root fs with no mount options; and the init scripts only conveyed the fstab options by remounting the root fs.
Fix this by making it complain all the time.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.13 Fixes: 92cf7d36384b99 ("xfs: Skip repetitive warnings about mount options") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong djwong@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino cmaiolino@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino cem@kernel.org
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c index 9d51186b24dd..c53f2edf92e7 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c @@ -1379,16 +1379,25 @@ suffix_kstrtoull( static inline void xfs_fs_warn_deprecated( struct fs_context *fc, - struct fs_parameter *param, - uint64_t flag, - bool value) + struct fs_parameter *param) { - /* Don't print the warning if reconfiguring and current mount point - * already had the flag set + /* + * Always warn about someone passing in a deprecated mount option. + * Previously we wouldn't print the warning if we were reconfiguring + * and current mount point already had the flag set, but that was not + * the right thing to do. + * + * Many distributions mount the root filesystem with no options in the + * initramfs and rely on mount -a to remount the root fs with the + * options in fstab. However, the old behavior meant that there would + * never be a warning about deprecated mount options for the root fs in + * /etc/fstab. On a single-fs system, that means no warning at all. + * + * Compounding this problem are distribution scripts that copy + * /proc/mounts to fstab, which means that we can't remove mount + * options unless we're 100% sure they have only ever been advertised + * in /proc/mounts in response to explicitly provided mount options. */ - if ((fc->purpose & FS_CONTEXT_FOR_RECONFIGURE) && - !!(XFS_M(fc->root->d_sb)->m_features & flag) == value) - return; xfs_warn(fc->s_fs_info, "%s mount option is deprecated.", param->key); }