From: Nikolay Borisov Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:41:04 +0000 (+0200) Subject: btrfs: deprecate BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE ioctl X-Git-Tag: microblaze-v5.18~292^2~16 X-Git-Url: http://git.monstr.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c405b24097c24cbb11570b47fd382676014f72e;p=linux-2.6-microblaze.git btrfs: deprecate BTRFS_IOC_BALANCE ioctl The v2 balance ioctl has been introduced more than 9 years ago. Users of the old v1 ioctl should have long been migrated to it. It's time we deprecate it and eventually remove it. The only known user is in btrfs-progs that tries v1 as a fallback in case v2 is not supported. This is not necessary anymore. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik Reviewed-by: Anand Jain Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov Reviewed-by: David Sterba Signed-off-by: David Sterba --- diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c index 92424a22d8d6..012fbfdfbebf 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c @@ -3986,6 +3986,10 @@ static long btrfs_ioctl_balance(struct file *file, void __user *arg) bool need_unlock; /* for mut. excl. ops lock */ int ret; + if (!arg) + btrfs_warn(fs_info, + "IOC_BALANCE ioctl (v1) is deprecated and will be removed in kernel 5.18"); + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM;