Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:01:31 -0500 | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 35/35] ext4: deal with legacy signed xattr name hash values |
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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
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