From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jesse Hathaway <jesse@mbuki-mvuki.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] attr: block mode changes of symlinks
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:09:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023101852-mundane-reoccupy-013c@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANSNSoV6encjhH2u-Ua8wmjy==emvpi+76HTZasxbfzobMQ_Vw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 01:49:44PM -0500, Jesse Hathaway wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 1:40 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> The problem is that it breaks crun in Debian stable. They have fixed the
> issue in crun, but that patch may not be backported to Debian's stable
> version. In other words the patch seems to break existing software in
> the wild.
It will be backported to Debian stable if the kernel in Debian stable
has this change in it, right? That should be simple to get accepted.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-18 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-18 18:34 [PATCH] attr: block mode changes of symlinks Jesse Hathaway
2023-10-18 18:40 ` Greg KH
2023-10-18 18:49 ` Jesse Hathaway
2023-10-18 19:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-10-20 8:34 ` Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-10-20 11:01 ` Christian Brauner
2023-10-20 13:26 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2023-10-20 14:25 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-07-12 9:56 Christian Brauner
2023-07-12 16:21 ` Greg KH
2023-07-12 17:58 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-12 16:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-07-12 17:56 ` Christian Brauner
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