From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Give 32bit personalities 32bit hashes
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:47:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200324184754.GG53396@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_6RY1XFVNJCo5=tTkv2GQpXZRqh_Zz4dYadq-8MJZgTQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:29:58AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
> On the contrary, that would be a much better interface for QEMU.
> We always know when we're doing an open-syscall on behalf
> of the guest, and it would be trivial to make the fcntl() call then.
> That would ensure that we don't accidentally get the
> '32-bit semantics' on file descriptors QEMU opens for its own
> purposes, and wouldn't leave us open to the risk in future that
> setting the PER_LINUX32 flag for all of QEMU causes
> unexpected extra behaviour in future kernels that would be correct
> for the guest binary but wrong/broken for QEMU's own internals.
If using a flag set by fcntl is better for qemu, then by all means
let's go with that instead of using a personality flag/number.
Linus, do you have what you need to do a respin of the patch?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-24 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-17 11:31 [PATCH] ext4: Give 32bit personalities 32bit hashes Linus Walleij
2020-03-17 11:52 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-17 12:38 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-17 11:58 ` Peter Maydell
2020-03-19 15:13 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-19 15:25 ` Peter Maydell
2020-03-19 22:23 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-24 2:34 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-03-24 9:29 ` Peter Maydell
2020-03-24 18:47 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2020-03-24 21:17 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-17 22:28 ` Andreas Dilger
2020-03-19 15:18 ` Linus Walleij
2020-03-17 22:30 ` Sasha Levin
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