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: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlay...@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
--
2.31.1
