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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.7 146/186] floppy: fix open(O_ACCMODE) for ioctl-only open
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On 08/25/2016 10:41 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 08/25/2016 07:08 AM, Mark Hounschell wrote:
>> On 08/24/2016 05:11 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I have a problem with this patch. It only fixes one of the regressions
>>>>> caused by the original change to the floppy driver. It does not
>>>>> address the
>>>>> user land breakage of removing the NODELAY flag checks.
>>>>
>>>> Does the same problem also happen in Linus's tree? If not, any
>>>> hints on
>>>> the patch that might have fixed it there?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it does. IMHO the entire patch (between 4.4 and 4.5 that broke user
>> land multiple ways) should be reverted and a fix for what ever obscure
>> BUG was supposed to be fixed should be "retried".
>>
>>> That's still an unresolved issue, and it's on my list to things to look
>>> into.
>>>
>>> This particular patch though fixes a different issue, and should be
>>> applied to -stable.
>>>
>>
>> This patch fixes a bug that was introduced to fix "some other obscure
>> BUG" that has nothing to do whatever with the "physical floppy" device.
>> And it broke user land in at least 2 ways. All this patch does is revert
>> part of the original patch so that it is only broke in 1 way to user
>> land. It should revert the whole thing IMHO.
>
> Which patch is this? If that is truly the case, it should be reverted
> asap.
>
commit 09954bad448791ef01202351d437abdd9497a804 seems to be the one.

Mark

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