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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.