Re: [PATCH] attr: block mode changes of symlinks

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 01:34:13PM -0500, Jesse Hathaway wrote:
> > If this holds up without regressions than all LTSes. That's what Amir
> > and Leah did for some other work. I can add that to the comment for
> > clarity.
> 
> Unfortunately, this has not held up in LTSes without causing
> regressions, specifically in crun:
> 
> Crun issue and patch
>  1. https://github.com/containers/crun/issues/1308
>  2. https://github.com/containers/crun/pull/1309

So thre's a fix already for this, they agree that symlinks shouldn't
have modes, so what's the issue?

> Debian bug report
>  1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053821

Same report.

> I think it should be reverted in LTSes and possibly in upstream.

It needs to reverted in Linus's tree first, otherwise you will hit the
same problem when moving to a new kernel.

> P.S. apologies for not having the correct threading headers. I am not on
> the list.

You can always grab the mail on lore.kernel.org and respond to it there,
you are trying to dig up a months old email and we don't really have any
context at all (I had to go to lore to figure it out...)

thanks,

greg k-h