CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED: Allow writing to mounted block devices

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED:

• prompt: Allow writing to mounted block devices
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in block/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 6.8, 6.9-rc+HEAD

Help text

When a block device is mounted, writing to its buffer cache is very likely going to cause filesystem corruption. It is also rather easy to crash the kernel in this way since the filesystem has no practical way of detecting these writes to buffer cache and verifying its metadata integrity. However there are some setups that need this capability like running fsck on read-only mounted root device, modifying some features on mounted ext4 filesystem, and similar. If you say N, the kernel will prevent processes from writing to block devices that are mounted by filesystems which provides some more protection from runaway privileged processes and generally makes it much harder to crash filesystem drivers. Note however that this does not prevent underlying device(s) from being modified by other means, e.g. by directly submitting SCSI commands or through access to lower layers of storage stack. If in doubt, say Y. The configuration can be overridden with the bdev_allow_write_mounted boot option.

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