fs: removing mandatory locks

[Christian Brauner]

Hello,

Upstream is dicussing the removal of mandatory locks. To actually do this at some point distros will need to start disabling CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING. It seems our kernel still defaults to CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING=y. If feasible I'd like to propose disabling CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING in the upcoming kernel releases. From the thread it seems that RHEL 8 and Fedora already disable mandatory locks:

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Thanks!
Christian

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apport-collect 1940392

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[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2021-August/123424.html

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 5.13.0-16.16

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linux (5.13.0-16.16) impish; urgency=medium

  * impish/linux: 5.13.0-16.16 -proposed tracker (LP: #1942611)

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - [Config] update toolchain in configs

  * Miscellaneous upstream changes
    - Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] Enable CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS"

 -- Andrea Righi <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:21:14 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-oracle - 5.13.0-1008.10

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linux-oracle (5.13.0-1008.10) impish; urgency=medium

  * impish/linux-oracle: 5.13.0-1008.10 -proposed tracker (LP: #1946331)

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - [Config] update toolchain version in configs after rebase

  [ Ubuntu: 5.13.0-19.19 ]

  * impish/linux: 5.13.0-19.19 -proposed tracker (LP: #1946337)
  * impish:linux-aws 5.13 panic during systemd autotest (LP: #1946001)
    - [Config] disable KFENCE

  [ Ubuntu: 5.13.0-18.18 ]

  * impish/linux: 5.13.0-18.18 -proposed tracker (LP: #1945995)
  * [21.10 FEAT] KVM: Use interpretation of specification exceptions
    (LP: #1932157)
    - KVM: s390: Enable specification exception interpretation

 -- Andrea Righi <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:26:41 +0200