Re: Commit 0be0ee71 ("fs: properly and reliably lock f_pos in fdget_pos()") breaking userspace

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 7:39 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think I'll have to revert that trial commit. I'll give it another
> day in case somebody has a better idea, but it looks like it's too
> early to do that nice cleanup as things are now.

I've reverted it for now,

I don't want this problem to cause people to report known bugs during
the merge window. The fact that I saw no issues obviously is just a
matter of my workloads being too simple.

               Linus