linux-kernel - [PATCH] mark pstore-blk as broken

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Date:   Tue,  8 Jun 2021 18:13:27 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:     keescook@...omium.org, anton@...msg.org, ccross@...roid.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, gmpy.liaowx@...il.com,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mark pstore-blk as broken

pstore-blk just pokes directly into the pagecache for the block
device without going through the file operations for that by faking
up it's own file operations that do not match the block device ones.

As this breaks the control of the block layer of it's page cache,
and even now just works by accident only the best thing is to just
disable this driver.

Fixes: 17639f67c1d6 ("pstore/blk: Introduce backend for block devices")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 fs/pstore/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/Kconfig b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
index 8adabde685f1..328da35da390 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ config PSTORE_BLK
 	tristate "Log panic/oops to a block device"
 	depends on PSTORE
 	depends on BLOCK
+	depends on BROKEN
 	select PSTORE_ZONE
 	default n
 	help
-- 
2.30.2