Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 12/14] add unique mount ID

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Tue Jan 16 2024 - 06:31:15 EST


On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:04:12AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 1:46 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 98d2b43081972abeb5bb5a087bc3e3197531c46e ]

If a mount is released then its mnt_id can immediately be reused. This is
bad news for user interfaces that want to uniquely identify a mount.


Sasha,

This is a new API, not a bug fix.
Maybe AUTOSEL was triggered by the words "This is bad news for user...."?

You have also selected this to other 6.*.y kernels.

Ack, I'll drop it from everywhere. Thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha