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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>,
	Pavel Reichl <preichl@redhat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] xfs: always warn about deprecated mount options
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:03:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251015050342.GW6188@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251015050133.GV6188@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>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index e85a156dc17d16..ae9b17730eaf41 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1373,16 +1373,25 @@ 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);
 }
 

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-15  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-15  5:01 [PATCH v2 1/3] xfs: don't set bt_nr_sectors to a negative number Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-15  5:03 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2025-10-15  5:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] xfs: quietly ignore deprecated mount options Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-15  8:07   ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-10-15 15:37     ` Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-17  5:45       ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-17  5:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-16 16:25 ` [PATCH 4/3] xfs: fix locking in xchk_nlinks_collect_dir Darrick J. Wong
2025-10-17  5:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-10-21 17:57     ` Darrick J. Wong

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