Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] random: convert to using iters, for Al Viro

Jens Axboe
2022-05-20T16:00:46Z

On 5/20/22 9:58 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 09:51:06AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> ABI. Obviously that can happen sometimes, but I think this one is
>> exactly the poster child of breakage that should NOT happen. We took
>> away a feature that someone depended on.
>
> I suppose somebody (Meta, I presume) *did* notice the breakage, which is
> sign enough.

Indeed, this is how I found out. And then you have to wonder how often
this has happened elsewhere where nobody bothered to report it, or how
many are still waiting to happen because they are still on an older
kernel and just haven't upgraded yet. Or upgraded and rolled back
perhaps.

None of the latter really matters, it's eventual breakage there, and
very real breakage right now for the first case.

--
Jens Axboe