linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] vfs: properly deny directory leases on filesystems with special lease handling

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 07:32:34 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] vfs: properly deny directory leases on filesystems
 with special lease handling

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 09:20:08AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Long term, I think it would be best to change leases/delegations to be
> an opt-in thing, such that leases are always denied by default if the
> method isn't set.

Agreed.

> That's a larger patchset though as we'd need to audit
> all of the file_operations that currently have ->setlease() as NULL.

Initially you can just wire them up everywhere.  But I guess that would
be overkill.