Re: [RESEND PATCH] Revert "fuse: Apply flags2 only when userspace set the FUSE_INIT_EXT"

From: André Draszik
Date: Mon Sep 04 2023 - 10:21:39 EST


On Mon, 2023-09-04 at 15:41 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sept 2023 at 15:34, André Draszik <git@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: André Draszik <andre.draszik@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This reverts commit 3066ff93476c35679cb07a97cce37d9bb07632ff.
> >
> > This patch breaks all existing userspace by requiring updates as
> > mentioned in the commit message, which is not allowed.
>
> It might break something, but you need to tell us what that is, please.

In my case, it's Android.

More generally this breaks all user-spaces that haven't been updated. Not
breaking user-space is one of the top rules the kernel has, if not the topmost.


Cheers,
Andre