Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 35/35] ext4: deal with legacy signed xattr name hash values

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 09:23:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 8:50 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch does not work correctly without '-funsigned-char', and I
> > don't think that has been back-ported to stable kernels.
> >
> > That said, the patch *almost* works.
> 
> So I'm  not convinced this should be back-ported at all, but it's
> certainly true that going back and forth between the two cases would
> be problematic.

Yeah, I wouldn't backport this patch, since it also requires changes
to e2fsprogs that will take a while to propagate to stable distributions.

   	     	       	      	       		 - Ted