On 1/11/18 6:09 AM, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was doing some cleanup work on rbd BLKROSET handler and discovered
> that we ignore partition rw/ro setting (hd_struct->policy) for pretty
> much everything but straight writes.
>
> David (CCed) has blktests patches standing by.
>
> (Another aspect of this is that we don't enforce open(2) mode. Tejun
> took a stab at this a few years ago, but his patch had to be reverted:
>
> 75f1dc0d076d ("block: check bdev_read_only() from blkdev_get()")
> e51900f7d38c ("block: revert block_dev read-only check")
>
> It is a separate issue and refusing writes to read-only devices is
> obviously more important, but perhaps it's time to revisit that as
> well?)
Applied for 4.16, thanks.
--
Jens Axboe
