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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>2021-08-19 14:56:38 -0400
committerJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>2021-08-23 06:15:36 -0400
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fs: remove mandatory file locking support
We added CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING in 2015, and soon after turned it off in Fedora and RHEL8. Several other distros have followed suit. I've heard of one problem in all that time: Someone migrated from an older distro that supported "-o mand" to one that didn't, and the host had a fstab entry with "mand" in it which broke on reboot. They didn't actually _use_ mandatory locking so they just removed the mount option and moved on. This patch rips out mandatory locking support wholesale from the kernel, along with the Kconfig option and the Documentation file. It also changes the mount code to ignore the "mand" mount option instead of erroring out, and to throw a big, ugly warning. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 3a93d4054810..9d0ad98f838c 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -826,9 +826,6 @@ static int validate_mmap_request(struct file *file,
(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
return -EACCES;
- if (locks_verify_locked(file))
- return -EAGAIN;
-
if (!(capabilities & NOMMU_MAP_DIRECT))
return -ENODEV;