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
