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Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:47:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:47:39 -0600 From: Tyler Hicks To: Amir Goldstein Cc: Christian Brauner , NeilBrown , Jeff Layton , ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix two regressions from start_creating()/start_removing() conversion Message-ID: References: <20251223194153.2818445-1-code@tyhicks.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On 2025-12-24 07:31:59, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM Tyler Hicks wrote: > > > > When running the eCryptfs test suite on v6.19-rc2, I noticed BUG splats > > from every test and that the umount utility was segfaulting when tearing > > down after a test. Bisection led me to commit f046fbb4d81d ("ecryptfs: > > use new start_creating/start_removing APIs"). > > > > This patch series addresses that regression and also a mknod problem > > spotted during code review. > > > > Ouch! > > Christian, > > In retrospect, it's a shame that patches get merged with zero test coverage > and no ACK from the maintainer. I wasn't able to be a very active maintainer over the last year. I think Christian did the right thing here. > OTOH, relying on ACKs from all fs maintainers will seriously impair > the ability to make vfs wide changes like this one. Exactly. The fringe filesystems shouldn't slow down the entire VFS. > Feels like we need to find a better balance. > > At least for ecryptfs, if we know that Tyler is at least testing rc1 > regularly (?) that's a comfort. I will be more active going forward and now have an easy setup for testing rc1's regularly. Tyler > > Thanks, > Amir.