From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
Jason Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 35/35] ext4: deal with legacy signed xattr name hash values
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:01:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9FSW2n1wPIwVjAN@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wi5GPS3poC_YRy93X38AqkvsFENAviMXHWjgOgo5k7p3g@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 09:23:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 8:50 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This patch does not work correctly without '-funsigned-char', and I
> > don't think that has been back-ported to stable kernels.
> >
> > That said, the patch *almost* works.
>
> So I'm not convinced this should be back-ported at all, but it's
> certainly true that going back and forth between the two cases would
> be problematic.
Yeah, I wouldn't backport this patch, since it also requires changes
to e2fsprogs that will take a while to propagate to stable distributions.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-25 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20230124134131.637036-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2023-01-24 13:41 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 35/35] ext4: deal with legacy signed xattr name hash values Sasha Levin
2023-01-24 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-01-24 17:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-01-25 16:01 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2023-01-26 14:12 ` Sasha Levin
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