The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-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.
Thanks, Sasha
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From fdd92b64d15bc4aec973caa25899afd782402e68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 09:29:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fs: warn about impending deprecation of mandatory locks
We've had CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING since 2015 and a lot of distros have disabled it. Warn the stragglers that still use "-o mand" that we'll be dropping support for that mount option.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org --- fs/namespace.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index ab4174a3c802..2279473d0d6f 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1716,8 +1716,12 @@ static inline bool may_mount(void) }
#ifdef CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING -static inline bool may_mandlock(void) +static bool may_mandlock(void) { + pr_warn_once("======================================================\n" + "WARNING: the mand mount option is being deprecated and\n" + " will be removed in v5.15!\n" + "======================================================\n"); return capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN); } #else