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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>,
	Tuan Hoang1 <Tuan.Hoang1@ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 09/14] tmpfs: disallow CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64 on alpha
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:17:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wghVA-6aNQz3rwr5VHmJAHkUvGyzKFpsEN1HPB5SL+aQA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YCPgzb1PhtvfUh9y@osiris>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 5:39 AM Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I couldn't spot any and also gave the patch below a try and my system
> still boots without any errors.
> So, as far as I can tell it _should_ be ok to change this.

So your patch (with the fix on top) looks sane to me.

I'm not entirely sure it is worth it, but the fact that we've had bugs
wrt this before does seem to imply that we should do this.

I'd remove the __kernel_ino_t type entirely, but I wonder if user
space might depend on it. I do find

   #ifndef __kernel_ino_t
   typedef __kernel_ulong_t __kernel_ino_t;
   #endif

in the GNU libc headers I have, but then I don't find any actual use
of that, so it looks like it may be jyst a "we copied things for other
reasons".

On the whole I think this would be the right thing to do, but I'm a
bit worried that it's more pain that it might be worth.

Heiko, I think I'll leave this decision entirely to you. If you think
it's worth it to avoid any possible future pain wrt this odd inode
number thing for s390, just add it to the s390 tree with my ack.
Because honestly, I think s390 is the only architecture that really
cares by now.

               Linus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-10 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-09 21:41 incoming Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:41 ` [patch 01/14] squashfs: avoid out of bounds writes in decompressors Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:41 ` [patch 02/14] squashfs: add more sanity checks in id lookup Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:41 ` [patch 03/14] squashfs: add more sanity checks in inode lookup Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 04/14] squashfs: add more sanity checks in xattr id lookup Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 05/14] kasan: fix stack traces dependency for HW_TAGS Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 06/14] firmware_loader: align .builtin_fw to 8 Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 07/14] mm/mremap: fix BUILD_BUG_ON() error in get_extent Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 08/14] tmpfs: disallow CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64 on s390 Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 09/14] tmpfs: disallow CONFIG_TMPFS_INODE64 on alpha Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 22:03   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-10 13:34     ` Heiko Carstens
2021-02-10 17:27       ` Heiko Carstens
2021-02-10 19:17       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-02-10 19:55         ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-02-11 18:45         ` Heiko Carstens
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 10/14] selftests/vm: rename file run_vmtests to run_vmtests.sh Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 11/14] MAINTAINERS: update Andrey Ryabinin's email address Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 12/14] Revert "mm: memcontrol: avoid workload stalls when lowering memory.high" Andrew Morton
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 13/14] mm, slub: better heuristic for number of cpus when calculating slab order Andrew Morton
2021-02-10 14:34   ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-02-10 19:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-02-09 21:42 ` [patch 14/14] nilfs2: make splice write available again Andrew Morton
2021-02-10 19:30 ` incoming Linus Torvalds

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