Re: [PATCH] Loop device - Tracking page writes made to a loop devicethrough mmap

[Jari Ruusu]

Kandan Venkataraman wrote:
> All comments have been taken care of.

Your patch still does not do conversions of existing user space visible
'struct loop_info64' which is pretty much cast in stone. Blindly overwriting
larger structure over smaller user space buffer of existing userspace
binaries is the wrong way to do this.

There was a time when folks at least pretended that breaking user space ABI
was not tolerable.

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