From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
Pavel Reichl <preichl@redhat.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: always warn about deprecated mount options
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:33:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251013233305.GS6188@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251013233229.GR6188@frogsfrogsfrogs>
From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
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>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index e1df41991fccc3..3517106159327b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1385,12 +1385,23 @@ xfs_fs_warn_deprecated(
uint64_t flag,
bool value)
{
- /* 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);
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-13 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-13 23:32 [PATCH 1/2] xfs: quietly ignore deprecated mount options Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-13 23:33 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2025-10-14 4:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: always warn about " Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-14 20:35 ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-14 4:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: quietly ignore " Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-14 11:27 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2025-10-14 18:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
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