Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "fuse: Apply flags2 only when userspace set the FUSE_INIT_EXT"

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 12:40 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 03:17:09PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

> > I don't think the Android use case counts as a regression.
>
> Why not?  In the changelog for this commit, it says:
>
>     There is a risk with this change, though - it might break existing user
>     space libraries, which are already using flags2 without setting
>     FUSE_INIT_EXT.
>
> And that's exactly what Android was doing.  Not all the world uses libfuse,
> unfortunatly.

No, this is not about libfuse or not libfuse.   It's about upstream or
downstream.  If upstream maintainers would need to care about
downstream regressions, then it would be hell.

How should Android handle this?  Here's how: they have an internal
patch, which conflicts with the patch they want to revert.  Well, let
them revert that patch in their kernel.  It's not like it's a big
maintenance burden, since it's just a few lines.  This is the sort of
thing that downstream maintainers do all the time.

It's a no-brainer, what are we talking about then?

Thanks,
Miklos