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Piccoli" To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: corbet@lwn.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com, kernel@gpiccoli.net, "Guilherme G. Piccoli" , Bart Van Assche , "Darrick J. Wong" , Jan Kara , Jens Axboe Subject: [PATCH V4] Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:15:11 -0300 Message-ID: <20240826001624.188581-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.46.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Commit ed5cc702d311 ("block: Add config option to not allow writing to mounted devices") added a Kconfig option along with a kernel command-line tuning to control writes to mounted block devices, as a means to deal with fuzzers like Syzkaller, that provokes kernel crashes by directly writing on block devices bypassing the filesystem (so the FS has no awareness and cannot cope with that). The patch just missed adding such kernel command-line option to the kernel documentation, so let's fix that. Cc: Bart Van Assche Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- V4: More improvements in the wording (thanks Jens and Darrick!) V3 link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823180635.86163-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 09126bb8cc9f..d521d444a35c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -517,6 +517,18 @@ Format: ,, See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. + bdev_allow_write_mounted= + Format: + Control the ability to open a block device for + writing, i.e., allow / disallow writes that bypass + the FS. This was implemented as a means to prevent + fuzzers from crashing the kernel by overwriting the + metadata underneath a mounted FS without its awareness. + This also prevents destructive formatting of mounted + filesystems by naive storage tooling that don't use + O_EXCL. Default is Y and can be changed through the + Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. + bert_disable [ACPI] Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes.