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Commit 0a8eba9b authored by Mike Frysinger's avatar Mike Frysinger Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ramfs: ignore unknown mount options



On systems where CONFIG_SHMEM is disabled, mounting tmpfs filesystems can
fail when tmpfs options are used.  This is because tmpfs creates a small
wrapper around ramfs which rejects unknown options, and ramfs itself only
supports a tiny subset of what tmpfs supports.  This makes it pretty hard
to use the same userspace systems across different configuration systems.
As such, ramfs should ignore the tmpfs options when tmpfs is merely a
wrapper around ramfs.

This used to work before commit c3b1b1cb as previously, ramfs would
ignore all options.  But now, we get:
ramfs: bad mount option: size=10M
mount: mounting mdev on /dev failed: Invalid argument

Another option might be to restore the previous behavior, where ramfs
simply ignored all unknown mount options ... which is what Hugh prefers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: default avatarMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 45e3e193
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