Re: [PATCH] ext4: Give 32bit personalities 32bit hashes

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 7:48 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 09:29:58AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >
> > On the contrary, that would be a much better interface for QEMU.
> > We always know when we're doing an open-syscall on behalf
> > of the guest, and it would be trivial to make the fcntl() call then.
> > That would ensure that we don't accidentally get the
> > '32-bit semantics' on file descriptors QEMU opens for its own
> > purposes, and wouldn't leave us open to the risk in future that
> > setting the PER_LINUX32 flag for all of QEMU causes
> > unexpected extra behaviour in future kernels that would be correct
> > for the guest binary but wrong/broken for QEMU's own internals.
>
> If using a flag set by fcntl is better for qemu, then by all means
> let's go with that instead of using a personality flag/number.
>
> Linus, do you have what you need to do a respin of the patch?

Absolutely, I'm a bit occupied this week but I will try to get to it
early next week!

Thanks a lot for the directions here, it's highly valuable.

Yours,
Linus Walleij