Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Document the kernel flag bdev_allow_write_mounted
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-08-20 16:24:00
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 07:56:27PM -0300, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
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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. Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 09126bb8cc9f..709d1ee342db 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt@@ -517,6 +517,16 @@ Format: <io>,<irq>,<mode> See header of drivers/net/hamradio/baycom_ser_hdx.c. + bdev_allow_write_mounted= + Format: <bool> + Control the ability of directly writing to mounted block + devices' page cache, i.e., allow / disallow writes that + bypasses the FS. This was implemented as a means to + prevent fuzzers to crash the kernel by breaking the + filesystem without its awareness, through direct block + device writes. Default is Y and can be changed through + the Kconfig option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED.
Can we mention that this also solves the problem of naïve storage management tools (aka the ones that don't use O_EXCL) writing over a mounted filesystem and trashing it? --D
+ bert_disable [ACPI] Disable BERT OS support on buggy BIOSes. -- 2.45.2