On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:41:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > > This is the fallout from the reject unknown flags discussion a few > > weeks back. So to keep backwards compatibily we can't _reject_ unknown > > flags. But we'd better totally ignore them and don't pass them to > > file systems or back to userspace using fcntl. > > Ack, this makes sense to me. It's crazy to let fcntl etc show bits > that the kernel isn't even using. > > I'm assuming this will come through Al eventually. It doesn't seem > high-priority for me to worry about it just before the 4.11 release, > but it might be worth marking for stable just to percolate the change > eventually to other kernels, and keep these kinds of differences > minimal. Applied tonight, still hadn't pushed it out into -next - the tree goes through testing.
