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Commit e04eb52b authored by Guilherme G. Piccoli's avatar Guilherme G. Piccoli Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted


Commit ed5cc702 ("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 <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240828145045.309835-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
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